The milkweed butterflies are large-sized butterflies; the upper surface of the wings is bright and reddish bordered with black, and the whole wing is veined heavily with black.
This particular one of the milkweed butterflies is called "The Monarch"; a smaller one of this genus is called "The Queen.
This is that milkweed from whose stems the Indians flayed fibre to make snares for small game, but what use the beetles put it to except for a displaying ground for their gay coats, I could never discover.
In June the leaning towers of the white milkweed are jeweled over with red and gold beetles, climbing dizzily.
The caterpillars feed upon different species of the milkweed (Asclepias).
This butterfly has assumed almost the exact color and markings of the milkweed butterfly, Anosia plexippus, which is distasteful to birds, and hence enjoys peculiar freedom from the attacks of enemies.
Longitudinal section of the head of the milkweed butterfly 15 32.
Let us take as an illustration the common milkweed butterfly.
For wick a strip of cotton rag rolled into a cord as thick as a slate pencil, and about two inches long; a cotton cord will do, or perhaps the fibrous bark of milkweed or other native stuff is the truly woodcraft thing.
One of the common names of this splendid creature is "Milkweed Butterfly" because its grub or caterpillar is fond of feeding on the leaves of the common milkweed.
Thin white ribbon, milkweed down, needle, sewing silk) Cut and sew the ribbon into a tiny mattress for this fairy cradle, and stuff with milkweed down.
See the color of the sky; See the clouds that sail so high; See the milkweed floating by”— Said the dainty butterfly.
The creamy sap of the milkweed growing in the timothy meadow was drying up in the stem.
I then extracted some of the cotton-like fibre from my milkweed pod, and picked it carefully apart into minute atoms with my fingers, and mixed it into the dust before me on the stone.
I filled the whole box with the soft cotton of my milkweed pods, both above and below the card, and put on the cover so that there could be no motion to wear the pivot.
In my trousers pocket I placed my pipe and tobacco, my flint and steel, and my tinder, tied up in my milkweed pod.
And when she touched my hands--her hands is soft like the milkweed silk we find still in the fall--I just had to like her.
In the meadows tall milkweed swayed its clusters of pink and lavender, marsh-marigolds dotted the grass with discs of pure gold, and Queen Anne's lace lifted its parasols of exquisite loveliness.
When ready to pupate the larva usually leaves the milkweed plant, and seeks some such protected place as the under side of a fence-rail or jutting rock.
As soon as hatched the larva devours the eggshell from which it has escaped and then feeds voraciously on the milkweed leaves.
The Monarch or Milkweed butterfly is distributed all over the country.
The black-and-yellow-banded caterpillar of the common milkweed or monarch butterfly (Anosia plexippus) is a good example of such protection by a combination of distastefulness and warning coloration.
The Pillager Ojibwe use the milk of the Common Milkweed along with the milk of Canada Hawkweed to put on a deer call, thinking that it will better imitate the call of a fawn that is hungry or in distress.
Open a milkweed pod in the presence of the class, so that they may see how the pod opens, how beautifully the seeds are arranged, and how the silk tufts are so closely packed in together.
Ask the pupils to release their milkweed seeds at recess, when out of school, and find out how far they can fly.
Drawing of milkweed pods and seeds, and drawing of the dandelion seed-ball and the seeds when floating in the air.
Some are better in combinations, such as milkweed and narrow dock, narrow dock and pigweed, milkweed and purslane and purslane and beet tops.
Anyone by hunting over a patch of milkweed anywhere in the United States during the summer is quite apt to find these caterpillars feeding.
Illustration: Empty chrysalis and butterfly] The caterpillar of the monarch or milkweed butterfly is a very striking creature.
It was made of twisted strands of the silk of the milkweed pods hackled by the bird's beak.
Inside, it was lined with the soft yellowish-white fluffy fleece found inside milkweed pods.
A coherent mass of pollen, as in the milkweed and most orchids.
So he ate sticks and thorns and tamarisks and milkweed and prickles, most 'scruciating idle; and when anybody spoke to him he said 'Humph!
Our milkweed is tenacious of life; its roots lie deep, as if to get away from the plow, but it seldom infests cultivated crops.
In dusty pods the milkweed Its hidden silk has spun," sings "H.
But it is the common milkweedthat is called the horned herb.
The milkweed is best known to most of us by its pods--long, rough cases, packed close with shining white silk attached to little brown seeds.
Would you think that this gay little beggar was a member of the milkweed family?
Think again of the number of pods on one milkweed plant!
When seed time comes it produces a seed pod like unto the milkweed pod only more slender than this.
A lad I once knew counted the number of seeds in a milkweed pod which he had, and found very nearly two hundred.
Look at a milkweed seed; it is a complete flying apparatus.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "milkweed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
