WS Butterflyway Project

WS Butterflyway Project Volunteer Rangers help create butterflyways in the community, by creating various garden projects, sharing knowledge at local events & online.

Helping pollinators by getting more native plants in the ground. Welcome to the Whitchurch-Stouffville chapter. The David Suzuki Butterflyway project began in 2017 with a simple aim:

To inspire people to plant native wildflowers throughout their communities. This project is a volunteer led movement bringing nature home to neighbourhoods
throughout Canada.

Winter sowing reveal. Just opened the water bottles. Some did really well and some just a bit or not at all. Great varie...
06/01/2026

Winter sowing reveal. Just opened the water bottles. Some did really well and some just a bit or not at all. Great variety of plants. Will post a list when the sun goes down

Nice to know who is who
06/01/2026

Nice to know who is who

06/01/2026

Most of the butterflies you'll see in June have been flying since spring. But a few species emerge for the first time this month — and the ones already here shift into their summer broods.

Already here and peaking: tiger swallowtails on every lilac, black swallowtails laying eggs on parsley and dill, red admirals working the mud puddles, painted ladies on anything blooming.

🌿 Emerging this month:

- Great spangled fritillary — large orange with silver spots underneath. Adults emerge in June after the caterpillar spent winter in leaf litter feeding on violets.
- Hackberry emperor — lands on people, attracted to sweat and salt. Found near hackberry trees.
- Summer azure — the tiny blue butterfly of June. Summer brood is smaller and paler than the spring brood.
- Zebra swallowtail — second brood. Darker and longer-tailed than the spring generation.
- Monarch generation two — caterpillars visible on milkweed this month.
- Viceroy — the monarch mimic. She's not toxic the same way — she tastes terrible on her own.

June has more butterfly species active at once than any other month 🐾

Good to know who is out there.
05/28/2026

Good to know who is out there.

Shout out to the great participants of Wayne’s Cup. Planting day for native plants. 🐝🦋🐝🦋❤️
05/27/2026

Shout out to the great participants of Wayne’s Cup. Planting day for native plants. 🐝🦋🐝🦋❤️

More great pictures from our planting today with The Spring Lakes French immersion school Eco club
05/26/2026

More great pictures from our planting today with The Spring Lakes French immersion school Eco club

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