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How to Raise Monarch Butterflies
SKU
076975
ISBN
9781770850026
Grade 3-AD
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Description
Interested in starting your own Monarch butterfly farm? This helpful book gives all the basics, from searching for eggs and larva to releasing a fully grown butterfly back into the wild. This book is a wonderful guide, full of helpful tips and photo demonstrations about finding, feeding, and caring for your hosts. Not only is it exciting to watch a tiny caterpillar grow into a beautiful butterfly, but it can also be helpful to the environment by ensuring the safety of the young insect. Included in the back of the book is a list of other ways we can help butterflies, a list of helpful weblinks to learn more, and a glossary of mentioned butterfly-related words with definitions. 48 pgs, pb.
Publisher's Description of How to Raise Monarch Butterflies
Observing a Monarch butterfly as it transforms itself from caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly is among the most thrilling experiences that nature offers. Raising Monarch butterflies is made easy with the help of this detailed guide.
How to Raise Monarch Butterflies explains what threats Monarchs face today and how readers can help conserve the Monarch's feeding grounds from encroachment. Revel in one of the most remarkable miracles of nature.
This updated edition contains:
* More than 40 new colorful and detailed photos
* More secrets to help you find eggs and caterpillars
* Instructions on how to feed a monarch and more details on their care
* Expanded information on varieties and propagation of milkweed
* New page on the diverse insects in the milkweed patch
* New suggestions for starting a butterfly garden, including a large photograph of an outstanding Monarch Waystation.
Details
| Product Format: | Paperback |
|---|---|
| Brand: | Firefly Books |
| Grades: | 3-AD |
| ISBN: | 9781770850026 |
| Length in Inches: | 8 |
| Width in Inches: | 8 |
| Height in Inches: | 0.25 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 0.4 |
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