tune. 1  accordion, concertina - Accordion derives from Italian accordare, to tune, and both it and the concertina operate on the same basic principle; however, the accordion has a pianolike keyboard and is rectangular and bulky, while the concertina has buttons in headboards and is hexagonal and more portable.
Background Information: The Monarch butterfly belongs the kingdom Animalia, the phylum Anthropoda, the class Insecta, the order Lepidoptera, and the family Nymphalidae (Smith 2014). The genus and the epithet combine to yield the scientific name Danaus plexippus . Because it is multicellular, it belongs to the domain Eukaryota (Smith 2014).
In the summer Monarch habitats are found throughout the USA & Canada, including Vermont. Monarchs migrate to Mexico for Winter. In the last 25 years, illegal logging has destroyed 75% of the winter habitat for the monarch butterfly. The monarch butterfly population is down over 90% in both North America & Mexico due to habitat destruction. Thatâs a loss of over 900 million butterflies since the 1990s.