VICTORIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
           Mr. A's VCS Bobcats 7th, 8th Homepage
                Honoring God, through education ...
                     Educating through a mission ...

            801 E. Airline         Victoria, Texas 77901
        Phone:  (361) 573-5345         Fax:  (361) 578-3367
Some special links  ..........                                              
Website and photos  by Harlen E. and Altus Aschen  
Copyright  (c) 1999-2003  HE&AA
May be reproduced and used for educational purposes
by VCS students, parents, and staff.
Monarch Watch Homepage  U of Kansas
Monarch Lab Homepage  U of  Minnesota
Journey North ... Study of wildlife migrations
Fort Worth Christian School Homepage
PSC weather
TWC weather
FSU weather
Intellicast weather
This page was last updated on: December 22, 2006
Mr. and Mrs. A's online pages to help teachers, students, and naturalists in Texas identify some of the more common, native
milkweeds important to the Monarchs each spring and fall.
The A's "Texas Milkweeds" ... Photo Intensive!
VCS Search Pages & class links
Texas Monarch Watch TP&WD
*New  Official Victoria Christian School website

*New  Texas Christian School Association  website     
Mr A's 7th Grade, Sci, Math
Mr A's 8th Grade, Sci, Math
VCS Monarch Photo Album
Mr. A's Insect collection guidelines
Above:  Mrs. A. checking a patch of native milkweed, Asclepias asperula, for Monarch eggs and larvae.
Above:  Monarch chrysalides from larvae we
raised in the classroom on A. curassavica.
Above:  A single bloom on an Asclepias
asperula plant in DeWitt County.

Below:  A single bloom on an Asclepias
viridis plant in Victoria County.
Above:  A pair of Queen butterflies, Danaus
gilippus, cousins of the Monarchs. 

Below:  A faded and very tattered January
Monarch along the Texas mid coast.

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