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Orley R. Taylor is affiliated with the University of Kansas in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas within Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Environmental Science. They have contributed considerably to subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, and Insect Science.

Their work encompasses a variety of main topics including Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Plant and Animal Studies, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Lepidoptera Biology and Taxonomy, and Climate Change Adaptation and Migration.

Orley R. Taylor has been involved in publications across several venues, with frequent contributions to Conservation Science and Practice, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Insect Conservation and Diversity, and Global Change Biology.

  • Evaluating the Migration Mortality Hypothesis Using Monarch Tagging Data, 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Are eastern and western monarch butterflies distinct populations? A review of evidence for ecological, phenotypic, and genetic differentiation and implications for conservation, 2021, Conservation Science and Practice
  • A comparison of summer, fall and winter estimates of monarch population size before and after milkweed eradication from crop fields in North America, 2023, Insect Conservation and Diversity
  • The cost of movement: assessing energy expenditure in a long-distant ectothermic migrant under climate change, 2023, Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Untangling the Complexity of Climate Change Effects on Plant Reproductive Traits and Pollinators: A Systematic Global Synthesis, 2025, Global Change Biology

The scientist collaborates frequently with colleagues including Adam F. Parlin, Stephen F. Matter, Patrick A. Guerra, John M. Pleasants, and Karen S. Oberhauser.

Best Publications

  • Decline of monarch butterflies overwintering in Mexico: is the migratory phenomenon at risk?

    Lincoln P. Brower;Orley R. Taylor;Ernest H. Williams;Daniel A. Slayback

  • Stable isotopes (δD and δ 13 C) are geographic indicators of natal origins of monarch butterflies in eastern North America

    Keith A. Hobson;Leonard I. Wassenaar;Orley R. Taylor

  • Monarch butterfly population decline in North America: identifying the threatening processes.

    Wayne E. Thogmartin;Ruscena Wiederholt;Karen Oberhauser;Ryan G. Drum

  • Transgenic Insecticidal Corn: Beyond Insecticidal Toxicity to Ecological Complexity

    John J. Obrycki;John E. Losey;Orley R. Taylor;Laura C. H. Jesse

  • Quasi-extinction risk and population targets for the Eastern, migratory population of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus).

    Brice X. Semmens;Darius J. Semmens;Wayne E. Thogmartin;Ruscena Wiederholt

  • Restoring monarch butterfly habitat in the Midwestern US: ?all hands on deck?

    Wayne E. Thogmartin;Laura Lopez-Hoffman;Jason J. Rohweder;James E. Diffendorfer

  • A Temperate Region Plant-Ant-Seed Predator System: Consequences of Extra Floral Nectar Secretion by Helianthella Quinquenervis

    David W. Inouye;Orley R. Taylor

  • Neotropical Africanized honey bees have African mitochondrial DNA.

    Deborah Roan Smith;Orley R Taylor;Wesley M. Brown

  • Ultraviolet reflection and its behavioral role in the courtship of the sulfur butterflies Colias eurytheme and C. philodice (Lepidoptera, Pieridae)

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  • A sun compass in monarch butterflies

    Sandra M. Perez;Orley R. Taylor;Rudolf Jander

  • Ultraviolet differences between the Sulphur Butterflies, Colias eurytheme and C. philodice, and a possible isolating mechanism.

    R. E. Silberglied;O. R. Taylor

  • The Past and Possible Future Spread of Africanized Honeybees in the Americas

    Orley R. Taylor

  • Efficient targeted mutagenesis in the monarch butterfly using zinc-finger nucleases

    Christine Merlin;Lauren E. Beaver;Orley R. Taylor;Scot A. Wolfe

  • Mandibular gland components of european and africanized honey bee queens ( Apis mellifera L.)

    T. Pankiw;T. Pankiw;M. L. Winston;M. L. Winston;E. Plettner;E. Plettner;K. N. Slessor;K. N. Slessor

  • Demography and life history characteristics of two honey bee races (Apis mellifera).

    Mark L. Winston;Jennifer A. Dropkin;Orley R. Taylor

  • Some Differences between Temperate European and Tropical African and South American Honeybees

    Mark L. Winston;Orley R. Taylor;Gard W. Otis

  • Aphrodisiac pheromones of the sulfur butterflies Colias eurytheme and C. Philodice (Lepidoptera, Pieridae)

    John W. Grula;James D. McChesney;Orley R. Taylor

  • Absconding behaviour of the Africanized honeybee in South America.

    Mark L. Winston;Gard W. Otis;Orley R. Taylor

  • THE EFFECT OF X-CHROMOSOME INHERITANCE ON MATE-SELECTION BEHAVIOR IN THE SULFUR BUTTERFLIES, COLIAS EURYTHEME AND C. PHILODICE.

    John W. Grula;Orley R. Taylor

  • DETECTION AND MONITORING OF HONEYBEE DRONE CONGREGATION AREAS BY RADAR

    Gerald M. Loper;Wayne W. Wolf;Orley R. Taylor

  • Interpreting surveys to estimate the size of the monarch butterfly population: Pitfalls and prospects.

    John M. Pleasants;Myron P. Zalucki;Karen S. Oberhauser;Lincoln P. Brower

  • Climatic Limits of Tropical African Honeybees in the Americas

    Orley R. Taylor;Marla Spivak

Frequent Co-Authors

Karen S. Oberhauser
Karen S. Oberhauser University of Wisconsin–Madison
Mark L. Winston
Mark L. Winston Simon Fraser University
Lincoln P. Brower
Lincoln P. Brower Sweet Briar College
Wayne E. Thogmartin
Wayne E. Thogmartin United States Geological Survey
Brice X. Semmens
Brice X. Semmens University of California, San Diego
Sonia Altizer
Sonia Altizer University of Georgia
Myron P. Zalucki
Myron P. Zalucki University of Queensland
Deborah R. Smith
Deborah R. Smith University of Kansas
Marcus R. Kronforst
Marcus R. Kronforst University of Chicago
Steven M. Reppert
Steven M. Reppert University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

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