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Book Synopsis The Ecosystem of a Milkweed Patch by : Elaine Pascoe
Download or read book The Ecosystem of a Milkweed Patch written by Elaine Pascoe and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2002-12-15 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the interdependence of some of the plants and animals that can be found in a milkweed patch.
Book Synopsis Milkweed, Monarchs, and More by : Ba Rea
Download or read book Milkweed, Monarchs, and More written by Ba Rea and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A field guide to the insects and spiders living in milkweed communities in North america north of the Mexican border.
Book Synopsis Milkweed, Monarchs and More by : Ba Rea
Download or read book Milkweed, Monarchs and More written by Ba Rea and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Noah's Garden by : Sara Bonnett Stein
Download or read book Noah's Garden written by Sara Bonnett Stein and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1993 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicle of the unmaking of a gardener with explorations into the ecology of backyard gardens.
Book Synopsis The Humane Gardener by : Nancy Lawson
Download or read book The Humane Gardener written by Nancy Lawson and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Pollinator Victory Garden by : Kim Eierman
Download or read book The Pollinator Victory Garden written by Kim Eierman and published by Quarry Books. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The passion and urgency that inspired WWI and WWII Victory Gardens is needed today to meet another threat to our food supply and our environment—the steep decline of pollinators. The Pollinator Victory Garden offers practical solutions for winning the war against the demise of these essential animals. Pollinators are critical to our food supply and responsible for the pollination of the vast majority of all flowering plants on our planet. Pollinators include not just bees, but many different types of animals, including insects and mammals. Beetles, bats, birds, butterflies, moths, flies, and wasps can be pollinators. But, many pollinators are in trouble, and the reality is that most of our landscapes have little to offer them. Our residential and commercial landscapes are filled with vast green pollinator deserts, better known as lawns. These monotonous green expanses are ecological wastelands for bees and other pollinators. With The Pollinator Victory Garden, you can give pollinators a fighting chance. Learn how to transition your landscape into a pollinator haven by creating a habitat that includes pollinator nutrition, larval host plants for butterflies and moths, and areas for egg laying, nesting, sheltering, overwintering, resting, and warming. Find a wealth of information to support pollinators while improving the environment around you: • The importance of pollinators and the specific threats to their survival• How to provide food for pollinators using native perennials, trees, and shrubs that bloom in succession• Detailed profiles of the major pollinator types and how to attract and support each one• Tips for creating and growing a Pollinator Victory Garden, including site assessment, planning, and planting goals• Project ideas like pollinator islands, enriched landscape edges, revamped foundation plantings, meadowscapes, and other pollinator-friendly lawn alternatives The time is right for a new gardening movement. Every yard, community garden, rooftop, porch, patio, commercial, and municipal landscape can help to win the war against pollinator decline with The Pollinator Victory Garden.
Book Synopsis The Milkweed Lands by : Eric Lee-Mäder
Download or read book The Milkweed Lands written by Eric Lee-Mäder and published by Storey Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delve into this fascinating appreciation of milkweed, an often-overlooked plant, and discover an amazing range of insects and organisms that depend on it as the seasons unfold, with this collaboration between a noted ecologist and an award-winning botanical illustrator. Ecologist Eric Lee-Mäder and noted botanical artist Beverly Duncan have teamed up to create this unique exploration of the complex ecosystem that is supported by the remarkable milkweed plant, often over-looked or dismissed as a roadside weed. With stunning, up-close illustrations and engaging text, they trace every stage of the plant's changes and evolutions throughout the seasons, including germination, growth, flowering, and seed development. Simultaneously, they chronicle the lives of the many creatures whose lives are intertwined with the milkweed: monarch butterflies; soldier and queen butterflies; milkweed tussock moths; large and small milkweed bugs; milkweed weevils; bumble bees; goldfinches; and more. The delightful illustrations and illuminating text give the reader the feeling of browsing an avid naturalist's sketchbook, while also learning about different milkweed species, how to propagate milkweed in the garden, the industrial uses of milkweed, interesting milkweed relatives, and more. This publication conforms to the EPUB Accessibility specification at WCAG 2.0 Level AA.
Book Synopsis The Ecosystem of a Garden by : Elaine Pascoe
Download or read book The Ecosystem of a Garden written by Elaine Pascoe and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2002-12-15 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple text explores how insects, birds, and other animals find food and make their homes among the plants of a garden.
Book Synopsis In Defense of Plants by : Matt Candeias
Download or read book In Defense of Plants written by Matt Candeias and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Study of Plants in a Whole New Light “Matt Candeias succeeds in evoking the wonder of plants with wit and wisdom.” ―James T. Costa, PhD, executive director, Highlands Biological Station and author of Darwin's Backyard #1 New Release in Nature & Ecology, Plants, Botany, Horticulture, Trees, Biological Sciences, and Nature Writing & Essays In his debut book, internationally-recognized blogger and podcaster Matt Candeias celebrates the nature of plants and the extraordinary world of plant organisms. A botanist’s defense. Since his early days of plant restoration, this amateur plant scientist has been enchanted with flora and the greater environmental ecology of the planet. Now, he looks at the study of plants through the lens of his ever-growing houseplant collection. Using gardening, houseplants, and examples of plants around you, In Defense of Plants changes your relationship with the world from the comfort of your windowsill. The ruthless, horny, and wonderful nature of plants. Understand how plants evolve and live on Earth with a never-before-seen look into their daily drama. Inside, Candeias explores the incredible ways plants live, fight, have sex, and conquer new territory. Whether a blossoming botanist or a professional plant scientist, In Defense of Plants is for anyone who sees plants as more than just static backdrops to more charismatic life forms. In this easily accessible introduction to the incredible world of plants, you’ll find: • Fantastic botanical histories and plant symbolism • Passionate stories of flora diversity and scientific names of plant organisms • Personal tales of plantsman discovery through the study of plants If you enjoyed books like The Botany of Desire, What a Plant Knows, or The Soul of an Octopus, then you’ll love In Defense of Plants.
Book Synopsis The Ecosystem of a Grassy Field by : Elaine Pascoe
Download or read book The Ecosystem of a Grassy Field written by Elaine Pascoe and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2002-12-15 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple text describes the plants and animals that inhabit a grassy field, creating an interrelated ecosystem.
Book Synopsis The Monarch Butterfly by : Karen Suzanne Oberhauser
Download or read book The Monarch Butterfly written by Karen Suzanne Oberhauser and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synthesizes current scientific knowledge on the life cycle, behavior, spectacular migration, and conservation of this charismatic insect.
Book Synopsis A New Poisonous Plant by : George Henry Glover
Download or read book A New Poisonous Plant written by George Henry Glover and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bringing Nature Home by : Douglas W. Tallamy
Download or read book Bringing Nature Home written by Douglas W. Tallamy and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “With the twinned calamities of climate change and mass extinction weighing heavier and heavier on my nature-besotted soul, here were concrete, affordable actions that I could take, that anyone could take, to help our wild neighbors thrive in the built human environment. And it all starts with nothing more than a seed. Bringing Nature Home is a miracle: a book that summons butterflies." —Margaret Renkl, The Washington Post As development and habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wildlife populations. In his groundbreaking book Bringing Nature Home, Douglas W. Tallamy reveals the unbreakable link between native plant species and native wildlife—native insects cannot, or will not, eat alien plants. When native plants disappear, the insects disappear, impoverishing the food source for birds and other animals. Luckily, there is an important and simple step we can all take to help reverse this alarming trend: everyone with access to a patch of earth can make a significant contribution toward sustaining biodiversity by simply choosing native plants. By acting on Douglas Tallamy's practical and achievable recommendations, we can all make a difference.
Book Synopsis Patterns and Causes of Oviposition in Monarch Butterflies by : Grace Pitman
Download or read book Patterns and Causes of Oviposition in Monarch Butterflies written by Grace Pitman and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective habitat restoration requires an understanding of species habitat preferences and the associated mechanisms driving those preferences. We examined the patterns and causes of oviposition preference in the monarch butterfly, a rapidly declining species, in southwestern Ontario at multiple spatial scales. Oviposition preference was dependent on both the size and density of the milkweed patch, as well as landscape type. Small (
Book Synopsis Monarchs and Milkweed by : Anurag Agrawal
Download or read book Monarchs and Milkweed written by Anurag Agrawal and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Wildlife Disease Ecology by : Kenneth Wilson
Download or read book Wildlife Disease Ecology written by Kenneth Wilson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces readers to key case studies that illustrate how theory and data can be integrated to understand wildlife disease ecology.
Book Synopsis Milkweed of the United States by : Glen Johnson
Download or read book Milkweed of the United States written by Glen Johnson and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milkweed is home and haven for Butterflies worldwide, and this is about what we have in the United States, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. It plays an integral part in the migration of the world's favorite Butterfly, the Monarch that travels all over the country. It also attracts many other creatures, including many Bees, Hummingbirds, and many other species. They also provide a great addition to your home and yard and makes a great hobby for adults and children. This book covers all the native species, what creatures get attracted to them, and what makes them their home. It also covers a brief history of Milkweed, from using it for things like ropes, deer traps, medicinal uses, to how it helped us in World War II. It also covers tips on growing it and how to collect seeds from it. It covers each of them from in common name, plus list them by state. It covers the insects that will help get rid of your plant's worst enemies but will look like the scourge of the insect world when you first see it. You'll find out what state has the most Milkweed species, which has the least amount of Milkweed. The reason not all species has photos is to make no copyright infringements have been broken., If you would like to see pictures of the plants that don't have them, they are readily available on the internet, but we could not publish them without the proper authorization. If there is a question about Milkweed, you'll probably find the answer here. If not, feel free to contact me with questions.
