Porcupine Gold Reclamation add one more tree!

Tailings Pond Returning to Nature

Dave and I plant an eastern white cedar.

Google map where we planted. see the map 

The area looks a lot different then what the older photos that Google shows from the air. More like park land now. GoldCorp is working on connecting the trail systems that al ready exist to the trails that they have created on the site.

You can tour the area every summer read more

Ecpantheria scribonia is my guess

Black Wooly caterpiller

Ants wonder if they can turn it into their next meal?

Hey queen look what I brought home, can I keep it?

48.193557,-81.462814

Google Map of the observation location. see the map

BugGuide read more

Butterflies and Moths of North America read more

Hyalophora cecropia visits again

Cecropia Moth Caterpillar

3 on Denise street

What a huge caterpillar!  The kids were holding on to two, but were finding a place for them to feed and move onto the next life cycle.

Butterflies and Moths of North America read more about the life cycle

June 2012 blog post read more

September 2009 blog post read more