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Monsters and Monarchs: Serial Killers in Classical Myth and History

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The first definitive report of monarchs moving en masse comes from 1857, when a naturalist described butterflies appearing in the Mississippi Valley in “such vast numbers as to darken the air by the clouds of them.” Subsequent field visits by the two researchers revealed that milkweed plants in these farm fields held up to four times more eggs than did milkweed in natural prairies and in farmland set aside for conservation. “They seemed to be monarch magnets,” Pleasants says. According to Tom Lewis, the then prime minister Robert Muldoon feared if word got out about how close the teenager had come to killing the Queen, the royals would never again visit New Zealand. At his trial in the High Court of Justice on Saturday 20 January 1649 in Westminster Hall, Charles asked " I would know by what power I am called hither. I would know by what authority, I mean lawful". [7] In view of the historic issues involved, both sides based themselves on surprisingly technical legal grounds. Charles did not dispute that Parliament as a whole did have some judicial powers, but he maintained that the House of Commons on its own could not try anybody, and so he refused to plead. At that time under English law, if a prisoner refused to plead, he would be treated identically to one who had pleaded guilty. This has since changed; a refusal to plead is now interpreted as a not-guilty plea. [8] David Lagomarsino, Charles T. Wood (Editor) The Trial of Charles I: A Documentary History Pub: Dartmouth College, (1989), ISBN 0-87451-499-1

The opening speech of Charles I at his trial, The Constitution Society, archived from the original on 10 May 2012On Wednesday 14 October 1981, Lewis pulled on gloves and loaded his rifle inside a deserted toilet cubicle in New Zealand’s oldest city, Dunedin, aiming his scope at the Queen’s motorcade five storeys below. But she still believes milkweed loss is the deepest cut. “I know Andy and Anurag really well. I like both of them a lot,” Oberhauser says. “But I’m sort of tired of this argument” that something other than wipeout of milkweed plants is primarily responsible for the decimation of winter numbers. How could something capable of taking out so many monarchs in transit to Mexico remain hidden, she asks? Only milkweed availability and weather changes strongly affect monarch numbers, according to a computer model she and some colleagues used in a 2017 study. These are the monarch predators that you unwittingly invite in to your cage, trapping them inside with your unsuspecting monarchs. I have done this with small spiders and stink bugs. This can be a problem when you raise on potted plants because of all the nooks and crannies where predators can easily avoid detection. The Parliamentary Archives in the Palace of Westminster, London, holds the original death warrant for Charles I.

Emma Goodey (3 February 2016). "Mary, Queen of Scots (r. 1542–1567)". The Royal Family . Retrieved 25 August 2020. Oberhauser, K. S., Taylor, O. R., Reppert, S. M., Dingle, H., Nail, K. R., Pyle, R. M., & Stenoien, C. (2013). "Are monarch butterflies true navigators? The jury is still out". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110 (39), E3680-E3680.

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If the paper had been about any other insect, only a handful of specialist scientists might have taken note. But the monarch butterfly has a special place in the hearts of people in three North American nations. The insect’s bright-orange color and large size, the gentle loops of its flight and, most of all, its spectacular migration have made the monarch a much loved celebrity. One of the key points of Felton’s overall argument is that the examples that she has highlighted are not necessarily always entirely factual (this is obviously particularly true with regard to the activities of early heroes such as Hercules and Theseus), but rather that certain aspects of them can be rationalised and are thus potentially factual. She notes that ancient authors such as Pausanias and Palaephatus were of the same mind, making the same points in their attempts to explain atrocities such as the Sphinx that terrorised Thebes until the intervention of Oedipus. John grew tired of his treachery and finally arrested him in 1356, only for Charles to be broken out in 1357. When John II agreed to a peace treaty with the English, Charles II freed all the prisoners in Paris. With the city on the verge of revolution, Charles U-turned and took the opportunity to lead the aristocracy at the Battle of Mello and the subsequent massacre of the rebels. Wood raising cages are hard to disinfect, which can cause ongoing disease issues. According to Monarch expert Dr. Karen Oberhauser: Saunders, S. P.; Ries, L.; Oberhauser, K. S.; Thogmartin, W. E. & Zipkin, E. F. (2018). "Local and cross‐seasonal associations of climate and land use with abundance of monarch butterflies Danaus plexippus". Ecography. 41 (2): 278-290.

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