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great for making ornaments :)
they are very pretty
its wierd they should have put a more interesting objec to be the object f the month!!!!! XD
you shouldn't underestimate plants
Just like this person said. Don't under estimate plants
they are great to make ropes with to climb mountains.
makes the softest pillow ever
what kind of plant is as soft as a pillow if i knew what you were talking about i would probly agree with you.
I think it is cotten with seeds in it
When i was about 9 my mom suggested that we raise Monarch Butterflies. It was a fun way to learn about caterpillars, they are very soft. We had to feed them Milkweed. Milkweed is a plant, that bleeds white liquid. It is very sticky if you get it on your hands. ^_^
caterpillars eat it
Not necessarily. It can give out strong allergy reactions and it can fall apart to make a large, difficult-to-clean-up mess.
I belive that it is a wonder fuzzy thing.
i agree with you
i should try it some time if it were in africa
why does it look like cotton
the saint paul milkweed is very well... pretty and beutiful.
This object has a literal name: Milkweed describes not only its appearance, but also its structure and plant classification. I wonder, does Milk-weed, do a body good?
i like the milkweed!
pretty cool
yes they are ! (:
how so?? milkweed sucks at making ornaments:(
Yea it looks so soft. I would give it to some one for a birthday present :P!
Thanks for the fact
great food for catterpillars!
milkweed, the choiciest plant on the planet
looks like cotton
i think so too
milkweed is very messy!, and if opened will get in you're hair! :o (and everywhere else!!!)
milkweed is very messy!
can i eat it if i was deperate?
why would you want to eat milkweed!!???
most likely i would beleve if it were a necessaty you could use it.
In seventh grade I had to raise a caterpillar and we had to find milkweed for them...
I never had milkweed before
It looks a litttle like cotton as in it is whit, fluffy and has little brown seeds. It is also fun to make Christmas ornaments with!!!
I <3 tthe science museum!!!
-written theday before my dad's B-Day!!!! :)
Milkweed is very messy and is loved by Monarch Butterflies!
yeah but it is poisonous to horses
Milkweed is very soft and dry.
When the catapillars of Monarch Butterflies are born, they eat and eat milkweed. They grow very rapidly, and then they start building a cocoon. They undergo meatamorphasis, and turn into a beatiful Monarch butterfly!
the thing that caterpillers eat.
it feels soft but its really messy and gets everywere
A beautifully natural abstract form. I could imagine it in someone's living room on display.
a very floofy plant.
milkweed down makes a great natural firestarter
If they were bigger maybe we can make boats out of them.
Milkweed is the BEST.
milkweed: so white and fluffy
so soft like clouds
so white like snow
so freash as a cotten ball
they hope they will continue to grow
thnk you for making learning fun
this object of the month is very different but cool enough to get my attention
it looks really interesting! I didn't know what milkweed was before so now i know! I bet my mom and dad didn't know what it was either!!! thank you, the museum is FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;o)
I love milkweed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They are awesome ;-)
very good for food. sold in many stores.
Milkweed makes a fantastic bit of tinder if you are trying to make a fire. Typically the closed pods are best since the silky parts stay nice and dry.
Milkweed is what monarch catapillars eat. Monarchs lay their eggs on milkweed too!
It's definitely white :P
i have milk weed in my back yard..... don't eat it unless u consider yourself a small green worm!!!
Its really weird and looks strange its seeds look like brown sunflowerseeds! lol ahahahahahahah write a comment for this 2!!!!!
It was pretty i hear that monarch butterflies like milkweed also there is a book by erry pinelli called Milkweed you should read it its a good book
It looks like a taco exploding with sour cream. yumm :]
The cotton's really soft and it looks like snow when it flies through the air, but it can get kind of annoying when you keep breathing it in, maybe even dangerous (that last part I'm not so sure about, though).
Milkweed was used during world war II to make lifejackets and to make many other devices, and milkweed was sometimes used to make pillows (rarely)
Many people/ children used to pick milkweed for the war effort, espeecially if they lived on farms. Milkweed was considered VERY useful!!!!
Hey, Museum visitors!!! Guess What?! Milkweed was used during World War Two to make lifevests for soldiers, and it was common for those who lived on farms to help pick it for the war effort!! Chew on That!!!!
its fuzzy
its fuzzy
In my old school, we had a butterfly garden with bunches of milkweed. The monarches LOVED it.
this picture is so odd! milkweed is almost transparent. i wonder where it grows?
Milkweed is a plant with white fuzz. It may get messy if you rip it!
i saw a milksweed once and it was so cool and my mommy got a picturewith me and it and i was tryng to have the milksweed in the picture and i snezed and the milksweed got all mesd up and i was snezing and my mommy was laffing but it was funny because i wasnt alergick i had a cold that day but i got dayquil kids from mommy so now i'm better. there are caterpillars on milksweed.
The milkweed is an indigenouz plant, it grows and grows until it can't!
I like the milkweed plant, it is beautiful and will always be around.
This display is really cool. Thanks!!
Fun to blow and watch fly
If you put them in the air they will fly away!
in second grade i had to raise butterflys and let them go in the spring
Oh yah
milkweed is exstrodinarily soft and super silky!
I like milkweed because you can use them to make very good bows.
i like milkweed because it is used to make rope
Milkweed--
Milky, weedy, common in MN.
Got a caterpillar in a jar? Put some milkweed in there.
Looks like cotton, to many animals, it's a toxin.
Milkweed: gotta love it. <3
It makes my pillow very fluffy!
You can find milkweed in lots of places, and if you find a caterpillar, you should feed them milkweed, not normal food, because they like milkweed. It also is very soft and fluffy.
We raised monarchs back in third grade and had to go to the lakeshore too find milk weed. It was hard to get to because thefoilage grows so thick!
You can make little ornaments by using the pod as a cradle and a goll as a baby head
Kyle said it is furry and white.
my brothers and sisters call them milkys
Milkweed ---
Does it have Vitamin A?
i think that milk weed is cool
it is something Monarch caterpillars eat. and Monarch butterflies.
Monarch buyyerflies eat these.
I like flowers,and milkweed.
milkweed is not safe to eat ever
It uses the feathers on the seed to make the seed blow away in a strong.
it is like a flower
Is milkweed poisonious to people?
My label for milkweed would be monarch food. I dont think milkweed is something we could eat but monarchs eat it.
It looks very soft! You could make blanket out of it!!! :)
It's cotton of course
my coat is very soft! could it be the softest thing in the world?
this milkweed plant is used to feed butterflies, right??
i think these makeme sneeze
you can use it as glue to hold things together. Milkweed is a very useful plant.
i call it the fluffy thingy
the milk weed looks very fluffy and beautiful cool from sarah and alex
i think the milkweed is awesome and makes me want to tickle someone with it. from alex
milky way dood
Milk Weed is very fun to play with. and to use as glue
Very fluffy, I use it to stuff doll pillows.
Caterpillars eat this? Yuck!
I'm milk and I'm weed. What's your problem?
milkweed is good to eat
maybe,if its like cotton,you could make clothes out of it
milkweed sticksin mouth.moo.
the shoots taste good,though hi.
shoots equals yummy
i'm awesome[and significant] screamed the tiny,insignificant plant.
the plant gives me the hickups
looks like vanilla ice cream with choclate chips being scooped.
This is sour milk stuck to a plant!
MILKWEED!!!
It's not quite milk, and definitely not a weed. but it totally is a weed. i mean... just look! what a stupid looking thing of creation. what couldit possibly do? well somehow it found it's way into the science museum of minnesota. go figure!
Go MILKWEED!
NO IT IS NOTSOIL NORE IS IT WEED SO I THINK IT IS LIKE SUGER AND SOMTHING ESLE BUT IM NOT SURE WAT.
Milkweed=icky! 'Nuff said.
ACHOO! Milkweed makes me sneeze!
milkweed silk is like a parachute.
Seedy and silky.
Woaa!:)
milkweed is disgusting and gross!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
take all the cottony stuff out and make ornaments it is a great decoration
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