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Milkweed Monarchs and More A Field Guide to the Invertebrate Community in a Milkweed Patch
Milkweed, Monarchs and More is a field guide designed to help students, citizen scientists and other milkweed patch enthusiasts in their exploration of this fascinating community.
96 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2003
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Ba Rea
8 books2 followersAll of her life, Ba Rea has been passionate about about the natural world — enjoying, investigating, learning and sharing what she discovers.
Ba has researched, drawn, photographed and written about many different plants, animals and natural phenomena. She has worked with a wide variety of organizations, including the Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania, Maine Audubon, Audubon Society of New Hampshire, Monarchs in the Classroom, Lifestrands, Ridge2000, Wings of Wonder, ASSET, Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, Frick Environmental Center, the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum, and the Anita Purves Nature Center in Urbana, Illinois. Her favorite creatures are monarch butterflies, but praying mantids, toads, American eels, puffins, and whales are all close contenders! Ba has been raising and releasing monarchs since 1970. She has been introducing school children and teachers to them for over 15 years and teaching a course for teachers interested in using monarchs in the classroom since 2000.
Ba earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois, in 1979, in an Individual Plan of Study, called Visual Literacy, which combined studies in illustration, educational psychology and natural history. In order to better understand how children learn and how teachers teach, Ba completed an elementary teaching certification program at Chatham College in 1996. She continued her studies at Chatham College, earning her Masters in Children’s and Adolescent Writing (MACAW), with an emphasis on natural history writing, in 2001.
Ba has researched, drawn, photographed and written about many different plants, animals and natural phenomena. She has worked with a wide variety of organizations, including the Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania, Maine Audubon, Audubon Society of New Hampshire, Monarchs in the Classroom, Lifestrands, Ridge2000, Wings of Wonder, ASSET, Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, Frick Environmental Center, the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum, and the Anita Purves Nature Center in Urbana, Illinois. Her favorite creatures are monarch butterflies, but praying mantids, toads, American eels, puffins, and whales are all close contenders! Ba has been raising and releasing monarchs since 1970. She has been introducing school children and teachers to them for over 15 years and teaching a course for teachers interested in using monarchs in the classroom since 2000.
Ba earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois, in 1979, in an Individual Plan of Study, called Visual Literacy, which combined studies in illustration, educational psychology and natural history. In order to better understand how children learn and how teachers teach, Ba completed an elementary teaching certification program at Chatham College in 1996. She continued her studies at Chatham College, earning her Masters in Children’s and Adolescent Writing (MACAW), with an emphasis on natural history writing, in 2001.
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January 6, 2019
It's a bug eat bug world out there in the milkweed habitat.
I learned that "frass" is the term for caterpillar droppings.
All kinds of insects visit the milkweed patch. Herbivores, nectivores,
predators, parasites, decomposers/scavengers, and those that
are just passing by. One of the predators is called the
assassin bug. It stabs their prey, paralyzing them and dissolving their tissues
with saliva injected through the wound. The name milkweed comes from the plant's milky sap
that contains latex and a toxic alkaloid known as a cardiac glycoside, which
adversely affects birds and mammals. It's dangerous out there in the milkweed
patch. Even though the monarch caterpillar is poisonous to some, it still falls prey to
predators and parasites.
I learned that "frass" is the term for caterpillar droppings.
All kinds of insects visit the milkweed patch. Herbivores, nectivores,
predators, parasites, decomposers/scavengers, and those that
are just passing by. One of the predators is called the
assassin bug. It stabs their prey, paralyzing them and dissolving their tissues
with saliva injected through the wound. The name milkweed comes from the plant's milky sap
that contains latex and a toxic alkaloid known as a cardiac glycoside, which
adversely affects birds and mammals. It's dangerous out there in the milkweed
patch. Even though the monarch caterpillar is poisonous to some, it still falls prey to
predators and parasites.
September 1, 2019
A great resource!
June 23, 2013
This is a useful guide. Too bad so few people seem to know about it.
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews