Last Wednesday, my son and I attended the fifth and final City Critters Family Series session as guests of the Toronto Botanical Garden. I had been looking forward to this session, so aptly entitled "Monarchs on the Move," and I was not disappointed in the least. After learning about the differences between moths and butterflies, how to identify a monarch and their migratory patterns, we headed out into the garden to release a couple dozen marvelous monarchs.
Our session leader Josh took great care in opening up the fragile package containing semi-dormant monarchs and handed them out to each of the children in attendance.
My son was a little scared to open up the triangular box but was still intrigued by what we would find inside.
Once we opened up the boxes, some butterflies took to flight while others decided to find the nearest resting place, whether it was someone's hand, a shoulder or a neighbouring plant. Here is our butterfly, which we chose to name Mike the Monarch.
Monarchs were everywhere. It was truly a sight to behold!
We later returned indoors and sat down at our workshop tables to begin work on our butterfly garden.
- Friday, September 27, 2013
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