Hope you Junior Naturalists enjoyed your morning in Crothers Woods exploring evidence of overwintering insects in wood, galls, on tree trunks and in leaf litter. Special thanks to Taylor Leedahl from the High Park Moth study program, and Meghan Duell and Jackie Lebenzon from the University of Western Ontario, for teaching us everything from how insects freeze, or avoid freezing, to how our cold climate affects management strategies of invasive species!
Keep on learning with the following:
- Find out the fascinating secret to how bugs escape the cold
- Insect Overwintering Habits And Ecology
- Winter Wildlife Tracking
- How to be a winter wildlife detective
- Discovering the World of Animal Tracks
- Spiders of Toronto (City of Toronto Biodiversity Series)
- Mammals of Toronto (City of Toronto Biodiversity Series)
- Dr. Brent Sinclair on How Insects survive in winter (PIR LIVE event / YouTube)
- How Do Insects Survive the Winter? (YouTube)
- Crothers Woods is a hidden gem in the heart of Toronto
- Crothers Woods, Toronto’s time machine in the Don Valley (Toronto Star)
- Wild Toronto: Hiking Crothers Woods in the Don Valley
- Hiking the GTA: Crothers Woods
- Crothers Woods (Wikipedia)