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• Ajilvsgi, Geyata. Butterfly Gardening for the South: Cultivating Plants that Attract Butterflies. Taylor Publishing Co., 1990.
  
  
• Audubon Society Handbook for Butterfly Watchers: A Guide to Observing, Locating, Identifying, Studying, and Photographing Butterflies. 
  
  
• Calvert, W.H., and L.P. Brower. The Importance of Forest Cover for the Survival of Overwintering Monarch Butterflies (Danaus plexippus, Danaidae).  Journal of the Lepidopterists™ Society 35 (1981): 216-225. 
  
  
• Grace, Eric S. The World of the Monarch Butterfly. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1997.
  
  
• Mervin, W.S. The Winter Palace. Orion 15, no.1 (1996) 44-53.
  
  
• Pyle, Robert Michael.  Migratory Monarch: An Endangered Phenomenon. The Nature Conservancy News 33, no. 5 (1983): 20-24.
  
  
• The Historic Flight of Monarch #09727. Monarch News 8, no.3 (1997): I 3-4.
  
  
• Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999.
  
  
• Silberhorn, Gene M. Common Plants of the Mid-Atlantic Coast, A Field Guide.
  
  
• Urquhart, Fred A. Found at Last: The Monarchs™ Winter Home. National Geographic 150 (1976): 160-73.
  
  
• U.S. Department of the Interior. State and Federal Monarch Activities in the United States. Washington: Department of the Interior, Policy and International Affairs, 1997.
  
  
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  • Brewer, Jo. Wings in the Meadow. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967.
    
    
  • Glaser, Linda. Magnificent Monarchs. Connecticut: The Millbrook Press, 2000.