I assisted The Friends of Gatineau Park again today. Along with a small group of volunteers, I spent the morning meticulously scouring hundreds of Common Milkweed plants for Monarch Butterflies, their eggs and caterpillars (larva). Our group spotted 3 Monarch Butterflies, a few caterpillars and a few eggs in a transect of land located near the Luskville Falls trailhead. Hopefully, the citizen science data we collected will be useful to researchers here in Canada. It is so much fun to learn about the Eastern Migratory Monarch and get involved with groups here in Canada that are trying to save the Monarch! Next week my mom is going to take me to Fletcher Gardens in Ottawa. The gardens are cared for by the Ottawa Field Naturalist Club. They have installed a Monarch demonstration garden and I am hoping to learn more about the native milkweed and nectaring plants that the Eastern Monarch uses hear in Quebec and Ontario, Canada. I have started planting a new pollinator garden at my new home here in Quebec and plan to create a project that will help bring butterfly/pollinator conservation to my new community