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Box Tree Moth are flying: check your traps!

Posted on June 23, 2025 by Cassie Russell

Today we had our first box tree moth (adult) captures of the season in our pheromone surveillance traps. Additionally, public observations on iNaturalist of the months started rolling in over the weekend from areas of Toronto, Windsor, Simcoe, Brampton, London … Continue reading →

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Box Tree Moth are flying – check your traps!

Posted on June 13, 2024 by Cassie Russell

Box tree moth (BTM) development got off to an early start this spring and we’re already starting to see flight of the first generation. Using public observations from the website iNaturalist, we can see some of this springs first observations … Continue reading →

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Here Comes the Warmer Weather!

Posted on May 19, 2020 by Jen Llewellyn

  What a treat! Several of our sugar maples are blooming this year all over southern Ontario, from Barrie to Niagara, these native beauties are gracing our landscapes with blooms.  Its been 5 years since sugar maples were blooming like this. The cooler weather continues!  Climatologists are predicting that our daytime temperatures will stay moderate until about the […]

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