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Butterfly fans, get ready! The central Texas Hill Country is a great place to view the Monarch Butterfly each spring. The migration route of the Monarch goes right through the Texas Hill Country. Areas along the Frio, Llano and Sabinal rivers are included in the 300 mile wide swath of Monarch migration from central Mexico to the northern United States and southern Canada.
Usually in late October and early November the Monarchs fly south to warmer climates in Mexico over the winter. When temperatures begin to warm in the early spring, the butterflies trek back northward through the Texas Hill Country, where they mate and then lay eggs on milkweed sprouts, avoiding predatory birds that find feed upon them. Although poisonous to birds, they are still susceptible to being killed as the bird first tries it, then spits it out when it tastes the poison.
The first caterpillars emerge shortly after the laying of the eggs, and then metamorphose into the familiar and beautiful orange and black winged adults. The Monarch is the only butterfly to migrate both North and South as do migratory birds, although no individual butterfly makes the entire journey. The females make only a portion of the trip, lay their eggs, and then die off. The rest of the journey is left to the offspring, as in a baton relay.
You can encourage Monarchs onto your Hill Country property by planting milkweed in your garden. The butterflies are very particular about where they lay their eggs, and milkweed is the nursery of choice.
The courtship of the Monarch is especially fun to witness, as the males pursue the females during the aerial phase, nudging them and frolicking about, before mating occurs during the ground phase, in which the couple are attached for up to an hour at a time.
Numerous Texas state parks in the Texas Hill Country are home to the spring breeding grounds of the Monarch. The flyway from central Mexico to Texas and on to Canada sweeps from San Angelo to Eagle Pass. Wimberley is an especially great place to view Monarchs in the spring.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department provides information regarding the arrival of Monarchs in state parks each spring, so be sure to call the park you wish to visit for estimated arrival and mating dates, which usually occur during March and April in central Texas.
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The Amazing Monarch: The Secret Wintering Grounds of an Endangered Butterfly
In "The Amazing Monarch," author and photographer Windle Turley chronicles the life cycle of the monarch butterfly. Replete with page after page of full-color photographs, the book shows the monarch’s rarely captured destination wintering grounds. The contrast of the orange and black pops off the page as the reader goes on a visual tour in the high mountains of Mexico. The multifaceted work also contains poems and quotations focusing on the beauty of these tiny animals that weigh only .02 of an ounce.
With carefully researched text and consultation with leading entomologists, "The Amazing Monarch" tracks the monarch’s migration and interesting life spans. Amazingly, this migration only takes place every four to five generations, but somehow, by the last week of October, the returning generation arrives at the same small groups of oyamel fir trees their ancestors populated the year before.The handful of roosting sites, located at about 10,000-feet altitude, each may contain 20 to 30 million monarchs in a single site only a few acres in size.
Monarch Magic!: Butterfly Activities & Nature Discoveries (Williamson Kids Good Times!
Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up | Series: Williamson Kids Good Times!(Tm).
This title is suitable for ages 4 to 8 years. Imagine a beautiful monarch butterfly - weighing less than a coin and only a few weeks old - setting out on a journey of 2500 miles, with no map, no directions, and no leader. It is a marvel of nature...and you can share in it! This is an environmental/science experience with a lasting impression! Children can participate in their first environmental cause as they discover the relationship between their favourite butterfly and the milkweed - the only food the monarch can eat in the caterpillar stage. This title includes stunning photographs that let children experience the complete metamorphosis, plus 40 butterfly activities. This title is suitable for ages 4-12.
The Monarch Butterfly: Biology and Conservation
"The Monarch Butterfly: Biology and Conservation is the most up-to-date and therefore essential word on our most beloved butterfly, the grand and endangered phenomenon of the migratory Monarch. Everyone who cares a whit for Monarchs should read these crucial, comprehensive, and fascinating messages from an amazing animal and the scientists who seek to save it."--Robert Michael Pyle, Ph.D., author of Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage, and founder of The Xerces Society
"The world's best known and perhaps best studied butterfly species still holds some fascinating secrets. This delicate international treasure critically needs protection and the continued vigilance of professional researchers and members of the public. This book describes pressing issues regarding the ecology and conservation of the Monarch butterfly; it is valuable for aesthetic, social, political, and scientific reasons."--J. Mark Scriber, Professor of Entomology, Michigan State University, and author/editor of Swallowtail Butterflies: Their Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
An Extraordinary Life: The Story of a Monarch Butterfly
This book first captures your attention with all the bright butterflies featured on the front cover. Then, you are told of a butterfly that has traveled for a month, living a full life, enjoying nature's beauty, and then dies. Although, she hatched over four hundred eggs and one is about to hatch. Soon, there is a catepillar and then, a butterfly, and then the cycle of life starts all over again. The monarch butterfly, called Danaus, from the Danaidae family of butterflies, leads you through a series of beautiful places, mates, hatches her eggs, and dies. The author, Laurence Pringle, is qualified to write about the topic of monarch butterflies. He had professors who had studied the topic check the book for accuracy and someone who had studied monarchs give him ideas for the book. Also, the subject is adequately covered. There are illustrations, with labels and names that extend the text. The pictures really help you to understand what the author is talking about. This book has illustrations that appear throughout to give you an idea of what things look like and hold your attention. Moreover,the language is colorful; Pringle decribes well the beautiful nature scenes in which Danaus is exploring. The book has an index so that it is helpful and easy to use. I would definitely recommend this book for children. What a wonderful way to learn!
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