Monarchs and Milkweed : : A Migrating Butterfly, a Poisonous Plant, and Their Remarkable Story of Coevolution / / Anurag Agrawal.
The fascinating and complex evolutionary relationship of the monarch butterfly and the milkweed plantMonarch 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 t...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 37 color illus. 35 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- 1. Welcome to the Monarchy
- 2. The Arms Race
- 3. The Chemistry of Medicine and Poison
- 4. Waiting, Mating, and Migrating
- 5. Hatching and Defending
- 6. Saving Up to Raise a Family
- 7. The Milkweed Village
- 8. The Autumn Migration
- 9. Long Live the Monarchy!
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Image Credits
- Index