Confused haploa caterpillar (Haploa confusa)
Diane photographed this caterpillar on a lupine in the butterfly meadow. This will soon turn into a strikingly patterned, large, brown and white moth.
Virgin Tiger Moth caterpillar
Larva, Goldenrod leaf beetle (Trirhabda sp.)
Diane photographed this larva at the garden the other day. From the photo, it looks like the larva of the Trirhabda beetle, a chrysomelid, with the common name of Goldenrod leaf beetle, which usually appears at this time of year.
01-JUN-2012
Volunteers planting the Butterfly Meadow
In fall 2011, we received a generous grant from Fido and the Evergreen Foundation to establish a Monarch Waystation at the FWG. Part of the project is to make a model waystation - one that most people could copy for their own backyard - in our Butterfly Meadow. On June 1, PriceWaterhouseCoopers volunteers spent the day working with FWG volunteers to make the model waystation a reality. Here they are hard at work preparing the soil for planting.
01-JUN-2012
Volunteers working on the Butterfly Meadow
We used some of the grant money to buy 3000 native plants, grown especially for us from seed we provided to Budd Gardens in Ottawa's east end. The PriceWaterhouseCoopers team and FWG volunteers planted the first bunch of wildflowers on June 1.
01-JUN-2012
Volunteers planting the Butterfly Meadow
The PWC team helped us make a huge start on our model monarch waystation. We would never have been able to get all those plants into the ground without them. Big thanks, PWC! And look how they're still smiling at the end of the day - and in the rain!