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Monarch and Milkweed Resources

"Return of the monarch: Its numbers seem to be increasing and so, too, its range,"
by Robert Sheppard, CBS News, July 30, 2007
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/nature/monarchs.html

"The monarch and the milkweed," by Roxana Robinson, International Herald Tribune, September 7, 2006:  http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/06/opinion/edroxana.php

"Toxic pollen from widely planted, genetically modified corn can kill monarch butterflies, Cornell study shows"
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/May99/Butterflies.bpf.html

US Department of Agriculture report on genetically modified corn:  http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/br/btcorn/

Monarch's Pupal Stage - Incredible Video of the Monarch life cycle:  http://clayruth.com/pupa.html

Monarch Butterfly USA:  http://www.monarchbutterflyusa.com/MBUSA.htm

The Monarch Life Cycle in Photos:  http://www.linknot.com/Magic-Garden/Monarch-chrysalis.htm

Monarch Watch Reading Room:  http://www.monarchwatch.org/read/articles/canweed2.htm

Do you know a Monarch when you see one?: http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/monarch/sl/8/1.html

Universal Resources

“Stereo Pair, Patagonia, Argentina,” Visible Earth Web Site, 6/14/2007:
http://www.visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=308

http://veimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/308/PIA02756_md.jpg

“The Earth’s Magnetic Field,” The Scottish Technology Science RoadShow Web Site, September 8, 2007:
http://www.scifun.ed.ac.uk/card/images/left/earth-magfield.jpg

“The Butterfly Cluster,” From Wikipedia, Messier’s Deep Sky Objects, December 4, 2007:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_Cluster

“M6 Open Cluster,” on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia,
September 16, 2007:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:M6a.jpg

“NGC 4567 and NGC 4568 (nicknamed the Siamese Twins or the Butterfly Galaxies)”
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, June 4, 2007:
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_4567_and_NGC_4568

“NASA Mars Picture of the Day: Small Impact Crater 06-22-2005,”
MarsToday.com, June 14, 2007:
http://www.marstoday.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=17089

http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/06/22/2005.06.22.S0501033.gif

“The Butterfly Nebula,” Space.com Image of the Day,
September 23, 2003:
http://www.space.com/imageoftheday/image_of_day_030923.html