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Captures the essence of the fragile yet hardy monarch butterfly in text and color photos, detailing the life of a monarch, migration, the monarch's world, and the need for conservation. Oversize, 9.75x9.75". Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Eric S. Grace is the author of numerous books, including Wonderstruck, Whale and Biotechnology Unzipped, and he has written for The Nature of Things and Science Magazine. He holds a Ph.D. in zoology from Aberdeen University in Scotland. Grace makes his home in Victoria, British Columbia.
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have long been captivated by the striking orange and black dress and the epic migrations of monarch butterflies. The World of the Monarch Butterfly combines a graceful text and stunning full-color photographs to capture the essence of this fragile yet hardy species.<br><br>Monarchs have the longest migration in the insect world. The monarch takes about three months to migrate approximately 2500 miles and may cover over 80 miles each day. Tens of millions of monarchs in North America migrate to a single small area of rare oyamel forests high in the mountains west of Mexico City. How does each generation find its way to the same place every year? How do monarchs know when to begin their journey? And what causes monarchs born at the end of the summer to migrate while those born in midsummer don't?<br><br>Well-known science writer Eric S. Grace explores these and other questions, describing the dangers of migration, the monarch's use of the milkweed plant as a defense against predators, the i
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1997. First edition, first printing, with full number line including the 1. Hardcover. Black cloth with silver spine lettering. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on jacket flap ($27.50). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight clean copy, new and unread. Square octavo, 114 pages. Illustrated throughout with vivid full-color photographs, including close-ups of larvae, chrysalis stages, mating pairs, and vast overwintering colonies in Mexico. An in-depth natural history of the monarch butterfly, integrating scientific insight with stunning visual documentation. Grace covers the monarch's complete life cyclefrom egg to caterpillar to adultalong with its remarkable multigenerational migration across North America. The book also addresses environmental threats to monarch populations and the importance of milkweed habitats. The photographs, many taken in the field, offer an intimate and dramatic view of one of nature's most iconic species. A perfect unread copy. 4700Q. Seller Inventory # 85395