Milkweed Visitors
Author | : Mary Holland |
Publisher | : Bas Relief Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Insects |
ISBN | : 9780965747240 |
Discover the insects and other creatures that live in a patch of common milkweed.
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Author | : Mary Holland |
Publisher | : Bas Relief Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Insects |
ISBN | : 9780965747240 |
Discover the insects and other creatures that live in a patch of common milkweed.
Author | : Ba Rea |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
A field guide to the insects and spiders living in milkweed communities in North america north of the Mexican border.
Author | : Ba Rea |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780965747257 |
Author | : Jennifer Huang |
Publisher | : Milkweed Editions |
Total Pages | : 79 |
Release | : 2022-01-18 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1571317171 |
Selected by Jos Charles as the winner of the 2021 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, Return Flight is a lush reckoning: with inheritance, with body, with trauma, with desire—and with the many tendons in between. When Return Flight asks “what name / do you crown yourself,” Huang answers with many. Textured with mountains—a folkloric goddess-prison, Yushan, mother, men, self—and peppered with shapeshifting creatures, spirits, and gods, the landscape of Jennifer Huang’s poems is at once mystical and fleshy, a “myth a mess of myself.” Sensuously, Huang depicts each of these not as things to claim but as topographies to behold and hold. Here, too, is another kind of mythology. Set to the music of “beating hearts / through objects passed down,” the poems travel through generations—among Taiwan, China, and America—cataloging familial wounds and beloved stories. A grandfather’s smile shining through rain, baby bok choy in a child’s bowl, a slap felt decades later—the result is a map of a present-day life, reflected through the past. Return Flight is a thrumming debut that teaches us how history harrows and heals, often with the same hand; how touch can mean “purple” and “blue” as much as it means intimacy; and how one might find a path toward joy not by leaving the past in the past, but by “[keeping a] hand on these memories, / to feel them to their ends.”
Author | : Tim Robinson |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2007-06-19 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0141900717 |
The first volume in Tim Robinson's phenomenal Connemara Trilogy - which Robert Macfarlane has called 'One of the most remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in English'. In its landscape, history and folklore, Connemara is a singular region: ill-defined geographically, and yet unmistakably a place apart from the rest of Ireland. Tim Robinson, who established himself as Ireland's most brilliant living non-fiction writer with the two-volume Stones of Aran, moved from Aran to Connemara nearly twenty years ago. This book is the result of his extraordinary engagement with the mountains, bogs and shorelines of the region, and with its folklore and its often terrible history: a work as beautiful and surprising as the place it attempts to describe. Chosen as a book of the year by Iain Sinclair, Robert Macfarlane and Colm Tóibín 'One of the greatest writers of lands ... No one has disentangled the tales the stones of Ireland have to tell so deftly and retold them so beautifully' Fintan O'Toole 'Dazzling ... an indubitable classic' Giles Foden, Condé Nast Traveller 'He is that rarest of phenomena, a scientist and an artist, and his method is to combine scientific rigour with artistic reverie in a seamless blend that both informs and delights' John Banville 'One of contemporary Ireland's finest literary stylists' Joseph O'Connor, Guardian
Author | : Anurag Agrawal |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2017-03-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0691166358 |
The fascinating and complex evolutionary relationship of the monarch butterfly and the milkweed plant Monarch butterflies are one of nature's most recognizable creatures, known for their bright colors and epic annual migration from the United States and Canada to Mexico. Yet there is much more to the monarch than its distinctive presence and mythic journeying. In Monarchs and Milkweed, Anurag Agrawal presents a vivid investigation into how the monarch butterfly has evolved closely alongside the milkweed—a toxic plant named for the sticky white substance emitted when its leaves are damaged—and how this inextricable and intimate relationship has been like an arms race over the millennia, a battle of exploitation and defense between two fascinating species. The monarch life cycle begins each spring when it deposits eggs on milkweed leaves. But this dependency of monarchs on milkweeds as food is not reciprocated, and milkweeds do all they can to poison or thwart the young monarchs. Agrawal delves into major scientific discoveries, including his own pioneering research, and traces how plant poisons have not only shaped monarch-milkweed interactions but have also been culturally important for centuries. Agrawal presents current ideas regarding the recent decline in monarch populations, including habitat destruction, increased winter storms, and lack of milkweed—the last one a theory that the author rejects. He evaluates the current sustainability of monarchs and reveals a novel explanation for their plummeting numbers. Lavishly illustrated with more than eighty color photos and images, Monarchs and Milkweed takes readers on an unforgettable exploration of one of nature's most important and sophisticated evolutionary relationships.
Author | : Nancy Lawson |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2017-04-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1616896175 |
In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists and horticulturalists, Lawson applies the broader lessons of ecology to our own outdoor spaces. Detailed chapters address planting for wildlife by choosing native species; providing habitats that shelter baby animals, as well as birds, bees, and butterflies; creating safe zones in the garden; cohabiting with creatures often regarded as pests; letting nature be your garden designer; and encouraging natural processes and evolution in the garden. The Humane Gardener fills a unique niche in describing simple principles for both attracting wildlife and peacefully resolving conflicts with all the creatures that share our world.
Author | : Martha E. H. Rustad |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Large milkweed bug |
ISBN | : 142962227X |
"Simple text and photographs present the life cycle of milkweed bugs"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Helen Frost |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2008-03-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1416900853 |
Explains the life cycle of the monarch butterfly and it's relationship with the milkweed plant.
Author | : Ian Tregillis |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 2012-04-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780765361202 |
The launch of a dark epic of magic and world war in a very different twentieth century