Milkweed Monarchs and More A Field Guide to the Invertebrate Community in a Milkweed Patch

Milkweed, Monarchs and More is a field guide designed to help students, citizen scientists and other milkweed patch enthusiasts in their exploration of this fascinating community.

Ba Rea is a naturalist, illustrator and author who has been raising monarch butterflies and frequenting milkweed patches in New England, Illinois and Pennsylvania for over thirty years. She tends her own milkweed patch in Glenshaw, Pennsylvania, where she lives with her two children, 5 cats, dog and myriads of fascinating "bugs."

Karen Oberhauser is the director of Monarchs in the Classroom and the Monarch Larva Monitoring Project at the University of Minnesota. These programs use monarchs to teach about biology, conservation, and the process of science. She and her students and colleagues have studied monarch biology since 1984. Karen lives in Roseville, Minnesota, with her husband and two daughters.

Mike Quinn is an invertebrate biologist for Texas Parks & Wildlife where, among other projects, he coordinates the Texas Monarch Watch. He is also a consultant for the 80 acre NABA Butterfly Park being built near Mission, Texas. Mike holds degrees in Wildlife and Entomology from Texas A&M. He grew up near New Orleans chasing snakes and birding with his parents and currently lives with his wife Gloria in New Braunfels, Texas.