It’s here it’s here it’s MOTH WEEK!! How will you be celebrating? 🦋🎉

I’ll be headed to Peterborough tomorrow evening for a night of celebrating moths — see Trent University’s Dr. Sarah Jamieson for details.

And this coming Saturday July 26th at 10AM, I’ll be with Northumberland Land Trust at the Lone Pine Marsh for our Small Wonders walk (preregister at info@nltrust.ca). Think you can only see moths during the night? Not so… Come with us to look for all tiny things, from frogs to bugs of all kinds. Perhaps we’ll spot a wave moth looking like a tiny delicate doily on a forest leaf, or a saturniid waiting the day away. (The first giant silk moth I ever saw was a Luna moth just chilling all majestically on an oak trunk. I couldn’t believe my eyes then, and I still can’t believe them now.) And you know we’ll be caterpillar spotting… You just never know what you’ll find until you go looking!

And don’t forget you can also celebrate moth’s beautiful butterfly cousins this Saturday at Department of Illumination’s Monarch Day and Community Picnic!

Happy moth week folks! 🐛🦋

This illustration is a rosy maple moth I drew after spotting it sitting on my office window screen. Incredible that such a candy-striped fuzzmonster exists in the real world!