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	All Items  |  Books  |  Videos  |  Software  |  Butterfly Rearing Online Store of Butterfly Stuff! Need Milkweed Seeds? Click here for the seed catalog! 2Checkout.com, Inc. is an authorized retailer for The Milkweed Farm and will be listed on credit card statement. Butterfly Pavilion Ages 4 and up Witness the wonder of the butterfly life cycle with this amazing educational experience. The 2-foot tall, newly redesigned Butterfly Pavilion “pops-up” easily. Hang it from a string or set it on a table-top. Its see-through mesh and zippered entry allows easy access for care and feeding. Includes Pavilion habitat, free mail in certificate for 10 Painted Lady butterfly larvae with special food and complete instructions. Six butterflies are guaranteed to be perfect specimens. Please allow approximately 3 weeks for your larvae to develop. Available only in the Continental U.S. and Alaska. Ages 4 & up. The Wall Street Journal found that the Butterfly Pavilion kit is the best out there. See what their comparison shopper wrote here. Temporarily OUT-OF-STOCK. Please check back in a few days for availability. $29.95 Out of Stock     Butterfly Feeder Ages 4 and up For years, hummingbirds have had all the “fly through” restaurants. Now, with our new Butterfly Feeder, butterflies on the go can get the same sweet treatment as their feathered friends. Hang our colorful feeder from a limb or set it on a flat surface. Mix together some nectar (recipe included), pour it into the Feeder’s reservoir, and wait for wild butterflies to arrive. This beautiful feeder is entomologist-approved and will provide hours of enjoyment for the whole family. Complete instructions included. Ages 4 & up. Temporarily OUT-OF-STOCK. Please check back in a few days for availability. $7.95 Out of Stock     Butterfly Activity Book Grades 2-6 Here’s the best way to make the most of your live butterfly experience! The Live Butterfly Activity Book provides activities, resources, and ideas that can be used with any live Painted Lady butterfly kit. Activities are suitable for pre-K to grade 8 and draw from the frameworks of the Head Start Program Performance Standards and National Science Education Standards. Compatible with any butterfly kit. Helps make your live butterfly class- room experience a year-round opportunity. Safe, lab-tested, easy, and exciting activities are easily modified to match students' skill levels. Material reviewed and modified by parents, classroom teachers, and district science coordinators. Connections to Head Start domains, Science Standards content areas, and related science skills. Student pages suitable for readers in grades 2-4 to help guide and reinforce the outcome. Chock full of classroom management and learning model suggestions from real teachers. Material reviewed and modified by parents, classroom teachers, and district science coordinators. Written for grades pre-K to 8th with an emphasis on grades 2 to 4. $9.95 On the Wings of the Monarch (Video) Ages 7 and up This exciting nature documentary takes you on a wondrous journey into the world of the Monarch butterfly. Travel to an awe-inspiring Monarch overwintering sanctuary in central Mexico where millions of Monarchs cluster high in the trees. This in-depth look at the butterfly's life cycle, mating, habitats and North American migration will amaze you. 47 minutes. Ages 7 & up. Temporarily OUT-OF-STOCK. Please check back in a few days for availability. $19.95 Out of Stock     Butterfly Garden (w/certificate for caterpillars) Ages 4 and up Watch them grow then let them go! See one of Nature's greatest miracles right before your eyes with our Oppenheim Best Toy Award-winning butterfly raising kit. Raise 5 Painted Lady butterflies while learning all about metamorphosis. See the caterpillar’s transition as it matures, changes into a chrysalid, and finally emerges as a Painted Lady butterfly! Absolutely safe to release into the environment. Includes colorful pop-up habitat suitable for hanging or free-standing on a countertop, pre-paid certificate for 5 butterfly larvae with special food, feeding kit and complete instructions. Notice! This kit doesn't contain any live insects, but contains a mail-in certificate for the live critters. Three butterflies are guaranteed to be perfect specimens. Please allow approximately 3 weeks for your larvae to develop. Available only in the Continental U.S. and Alaska. Ages 4 & up. Temporarily OUT-OF-STOCK. Please check back in a few days for availability. $19.95 Out of Stock     Butterfly Net Ages 4 and up Use this fun net to capture critters large and small. The unique butterfly shape sets it apart from other nature nets, and you can use it on land or water! Provides hours of outdoor enjoyment for young nature lovers. Ages 4 & up. Temporarily OUT-OF-STOCK. Please check back in a few days for availability. $4.95 Out of Stock     Life Cycle of a Butterfly (Book) Ages 4 and up This book describes the stages of butterfly development, from the beginning egg stage through the maturation of the winged adult. The content supports the standard for "The Living Environment: Diversity of Life and Heredity," as required by Benchmarks for Science Literacy: Project 2061 and is leveled for newly fluent to fluent level early-intervention reading programs. Ages 4 & up. $11.95 Backyard Bugs - The Monarch (CD-ROM) Explore the natural history of the monarch butterfly. Inquire about the monarch's basic needs, structures, life cycle, inherited characteristics and interactions with its environment. Use virtual tools to conduct simple investigations. Use a science journal to record and explain findings. Features include: 24 monarch video clips, 8 interactive screens, monarch science reference resource, glossary, teacher's guide and student science journal. Ages 5-10. CD-ROM. System requirements: Windows 98 or above, Pentium II processor, CD-ROM drive, 64 MB RAM, Internet Explorer 5.5 or above. $24.95 Science Snoops - The Case of the Missing Monarchs (CD-ROM) This interactive CD-ROM and teacher's guide, designed for grades 6-8, gives students the task of investigating why the population of monarch butterflies is in danger. Students use mathematics to perform an inquiry-based science investigation on a computer. They begin by viewing videos of a butterfly's life cycle, its food sources, and its larvae. The video clips help students recognize and analyze alternative explanations and predictions. Students click on virtual samples to measure and record larvae weight, butterfly weight, and wing length. They determine the effects of pesticides, herbicides, weather conditions, parasites, and infections by viewing images of butterfly scales and milkweed leaves under a microscope. Biotechnology and entomology experts explain some of the factors that threaten monarchs in their breeding habitats and wintering sites. Students keep science journals to gather, analyze, and interpret data. The journals are intended to teach students to communicate scientific procedures and explanations as if they were presenting their reports to a client. The teacher's guide contains a sample journal that serves as an example for assessing students' journal entries, and reproducibles provide students with an outline to follow when writing their entries. A chart identifies what segments of the activity correlate to specific National Science Education Standards. $24.95 Field Guide to North American Milkweed Author: Everett, Craig R. The Field Guide to North American Milkweed offers milkweed and monarch afficionados a way to identify the various milkweed species in the field by providing descriptions and photos of each species in its various stages of growth and maturity. This is the first and only comprehensive milkweed field guide in print, and is a must-have for any butterfly gardener or monarch lover. This book is currently in development and should be on shelves in 2005. OUT-OF-STOCK until Summer 2005. Please check back then for availability. $24.95 Out of Stock     Monarch Butterfly (Gibbons) Author: Gibbons, Gail Ages 4-8 This book describes the life cycle, body parts, and behavior of the monarch butterfly. Includes instructions on how to raise a monarch. Temporarily OUT-OF-STOCK. Please check back in a few days for availability. $6.95 Out of Stock     An Extraordinary Life: The Story of a Monarch Butterfly Author: Pringle, Lawrence Ages 9-12 This book introduces the life cycle, feeding habits, migration, predators, and mating of the monarch butterfly through the observation of one particular monarch named Danaus. $18.95 Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage Author: Pyle, Robert Michael The monarch butterfly is our best-known and best-loved insect, and its annual migration over thousands of miles is an extraordinary natural phenomenon. Robert Michael Pyle, "one of America's finest natural history writers" (Sue Hubbell), set out late one summer to follow the monarchs south from their northernmost breeding ground in British Columbia. CHASING MONARCHS tells the engrossing story of his adventurous journey with these graceful wanderers -- down the Columbia, Snake, Bear, and Colorado rivers, across the Bonneville Salt Flats, and through the Chiricahua Mountains to Mexico, returning north along the California coast. Part travelogue, part scientific study, CHASING MONARCHS is one of the most fascinating books ever written about butterflies. "[Pyle's] delightful anecdotes, thought-provoking philosophical questions and personal passion make this chronicle a potential classic" (Monarch News). Temporarily OUT-OF-STOCK. Please check back in a few days for availability. $13.95 Out of Stock     Monarch Butterfly (Cooper) Author: Cooper, Jason Ages 4-8 This book describes the life cycles of the monarch butterfly. $4.95 Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly Author: Halpern, Sue In her luminous new book, a renowned nature writer tracks the amazing migration of the monarch butterfly and introduces readers to the scientists and amateurs who seek to address one of theabiding mysteries of nature. Temporarily OUT-OF-STOCK. Please check back in a few days for availability. $11.95 Out of Stock     Monarch Magic! : Butterfly Activities and Nature Discoveries Author: Rosenblatt, Lynn Ages 9-12 Simple text and photographs depict the life cycle and metamorphosis of a monarch butterfly, from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to emerging butterfly. Includes crafts and related activities. Temporarily OUT-OF-STOCK. Please check back in a few days for availability. $12.95 Out of Stock     Madalynn the Monarch Butterfly (Book) Temporarily OUT-OF-STOCK. Please check back in a few days for availability. $9.95 Out of Stock     Magnificent Monarchs (Book) $0 Milkweed Bugs (Book) $0 Monarch Butterflies (Book) Author: Waxman $0 Monarchs (Book) Author: Laskey $0 My Monarch Journal (Studend Edition) $0