Here’s an activity page that describes a few of the creatures that students might find in a stand of milkweeds. There are excellent (and more detailed) descriptions of the interactions and adaptations to be found within such communities in John Eastman’s marvelous tome, The Book of Field and Roadside, published by Stackpole Books in 2003, as well as in the extremely useful Peterson Field Guide to Eastern Forests: North America by John C. Kricher, Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
Reading aloud and transforming a page such as this before or after a visit to a milkweed clump gives students a chance to amplify and reinforce their actual out-of-doors experiences with seen (not just heard) words and images. The completed page becomes a tangible prompt for conversations with families and friends. It can also serve as a memento to be pasted into their nature journals accompanied by their original written reflections and / or field sketches.
Here is the PDF: Parts of Milkweed Plant and a few Animal Associates