Tag: monarch
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August 19, 2008 02:04 PM EDT --
My husband and I had set off one afternoon in hopes of finding a nice place to take some photographs. As often happens, we found ourselves heading toward the Samuel Morse Estate to walk . . . more
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June 10, 2008 03:06 PM EDT --
Yesterday was the beginning of summer reading - an event that we look forward to as a family. This year's theme is "Catch The Reading Bug" which is great because Gideon LOVES bugs and because . . . more
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September 29, 2006 12:07 PM EDT --
One of every child's first science lesson is about the lowly caterpillar's metamorphoses into the lovely butterfly. What a fitting metaphor for life itself. We start out lives as tiny eggs; advance . . . more
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June 26, 2008 03:26 PM EDT --
Well, I stayed up filled with worry and guilt after the fall for nearly 4 hours. At 7:30am I finally turned in, but not before taking a friend's advice to lay it on a leaf. I did so barely seeing any . . . more
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June 25, 2008 05:24 PM EDT --
Yesterday our eldest Monarch was sitting on the top of our butterfly treehouse. Gideon wanted so much to take him down, but I said leave it be. I had a feeling that it's time to be a butterfly was . . . more
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June 26, 2008 05:35 AM EDT --
I'm hoping maybe someone can alleviate our concerns over this tragedy here.
As many of you know our eldest J hooked yesterday. We were very excited and left it alone. It did not start to form . . . more
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June 11, 2008 04:25 AM EDT --
Well, remember that egg we had on the milkweed at the library? Well once we got into the car it was gone... and we worried that it fell off. How terrible would that have been?
We had seen something . . . more
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July 06, 2006 02:32 PM EDT --
Wildlife officials in Canada, Mexico, and the United States have designated 13 wildlife preserves as protected areas, creating the "Trilateral Monarch Butterfly Sister Protected Area Network" . . . more
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June 30, 2008 04:31 AM EDT --
As many of you have noticed we have been raising Monarchs this month. Along this journey I've learned a lot about how you all can raise them yourselves.
I know there's probably two big questions . . . more
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June 28, 2007 06:26 AM EDT --
http://www.mlive.com/news/kzgazette/index.ssf?/base/news-23/1180625251272830.xml&coll=7
Interesting article about the importance of Milkweed, and scent not color for attracting the butterflies. . . . more
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August 27, 2008 02:24 PM EDT --
Monarchs, Mourning Cloaks and Skippers at Rainbow's End
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April 26, 2007 04:29 PM EDT --
Every now and then this comes up. They were around for a long time.
Rules are simple, one emperor per comment.
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April 20, 2008 01:37 PM EDT --
Little Queen I kneel to you. My heart has made a throne of monarch wings that tremble like an autumn forest's leaves. A quiet hum where you, aloft, rule the air inside my soul.
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April 30, 2007 12:43 AM EDT --
We saw a Monarch
fluttering faintly
against the bottom step
of Grandma Merkel's house.
I mumbled maybe we should
feed it some sugar water,
"Grow up," my sister said
and smashed it . . . more
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June 27, 2008 07:40 PM EDT --
Butterflies and moths together make up the order of insects known as Lepidoptera. There are several main points of difference.
Butterflies generally come out during the day, rest with their wings . . . more
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March 24, 2007 04:10 PM EDT --
The wonderful pines (we take for granted) covering the Monterey Peninsula in California is the largest remaining native Monterey pine forest left in the world. Only two other small native forests . . . more
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September 01, 2006 09:34 AM EDT --
The Bush administration has committed crime after crime and no one seems to do anything about this fact despite the outrage from so many US Citizens and the world. I am left wondering just what this administration . . . more
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April 11, 2007 01:32 PM EDT --
We citizens of Planet Earth are a diverse bunch. We come from different countries, speak different languages and live in different cultures. Our religious beliefs run the gamut from strong . . . more
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August 18, 2006 12:08 PM EDT --
Yesterday a Federal judge in Detroit ruled that the NSA's wiretapping program of Americans is unconstitutional. The ruling is the first one that directly says the US Justice system finds the NSA's . . . more
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November 11, 2006 01:38 PM EST --
Washington, D.C. -- The search is over: a new Monarch has been found ... and Prime Minister Bush went quietly into the night, or should we say, the afternoon.
The former leader of the world was replaced . . . more
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