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Nature Showcase: Millipede

Office Staff often go for post-lunch walks – to digest and to get away from those darn computers!  We’ve noticed this summer many millipedes plowing through leaf-litter, under logs, even across pavement!  Those fast-moving legs make them very distinctive and for some,...

Nature Showcase: What’s a Orgyia leucostigma??

One day, while bringing plants into our greenhouse here at the main site, we saw an unusual sight. What was this unusual sight? A caterpillar, which will turn into a White-Marked Tussock Moth, to be exact! Orgyia leucostigma is native species to Ontario and it even...

Nature Showcase: Wildfires

The headlines for the last couple of months made it sound like all of Canada was burning down!  Wildfires in Alberta and BC grabbed early headlines, then Quebec, Nova Scotia, and Ontario made the nightly news!  Air quality suffered – at one point we couldn’t see...

Nature Showcase: Black Bear

Driving home from Renfrew after a fundraising event we were surprised and delighted to witness a black bear lope across the road a few 100 metres away.  It and we were never in danger of a collision, and it happened so quickly that the bear had disappeared into...

Nature Showcase: The American Mink

Driving to the Camp the other day we saw a mink dart across the road with a mouse in its mouth.  It was fast and disappeared quickly in the grasses and bush by the side of the road.  Sleek and a beautiful brown its fur glistened in the sunshine. A little research...

Nature Showcase: Bird Nest Building

It’s one of those seasons when birders are out on trails, along shorelines, in wetlands waiting to see the return of our many winged friends.  Loons and warblers and everything in between have made the long trek back to Canada to enjoy the abundance of summer and to,...