7、The specific glycosides present in milkweed differ from region to region within the monarch butterfly's range.
11、The ornamental plant of milkweed family was liken by people with its unusual of flower, its elegant of vine.
15、A flat-topped or rounded flower cluster in which the individual flower stalks arise from about the same point, as in the geranium, milkweed, onion, and chive.
19、“The birdlike gestures are worn away to a mere picking and pluck her way between the tire rims and the sunflowers, between Coke bottles and milkweed, among all the waste and beauty of the world——which is what she herself was.
4、Caterpillars of monarch butterflies feed exclusively on milkweed leaves.
9、Overall, a monarch butterfly is no more or less striking than its host, the milkweed pod.
14、If I met a fairy, I could stay awake all night without getting tired, then sleep all morning as fairies do, curled in a silky milkweed pod.
1、downy milkweed seeds.
6、In defending itself so thoroughly against the monarch, the milkweed became inseparable from the butterfly.
13、When, in experiments, these caterpillars were fed milkweed leaves dusted with pollen from modified maize plants, they died.
2、(botany) of or relating to plants of the milkweed family.
10、There they leave their eggs on milkweed plants, with the next generation of monarchs appearing a short time later.
18、They are poor yet have done their bit to reduce illegal logging. Americans and Canadians are much richer, and have millions of miles of roadside that could usefully be covered with milkweed.
12、Maize pollen is dispersed by the wind and often blows onto milkweed plants that grow near maize fields.
5、Being milkweed, it sent more shoots right back up.
3、milkweed of southwestern United States and Mexico; poisonous to livestock.
8、Cattails, dried milkweed pods, and other weeds may be gathered and painted for decorations.
17、The EPA estimates that the insects face no observable harm when consuming milkweed leaves laden with up to 150 corn pollen grains per square centimeter of leaf surface.
16、A liquid, such as coconut milk, milkweed sap, plant latex, or various medical emulsions, that is similar to milk in appearance.
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