u/TheGrantelope13

Hello! I plant a large pollinator garden every year with a ton of butterfly & moth host plants for the purpose of letting them eat it but I know plenty of people that come across swallowtail caterpillars on their dill or parsley that they are growing to eat themselves so they relocate them. We haven’t had many visitors to our garden yet this year and my 5 & 3 year olds are a little bummed (honestly me too) as they love to watch the caterpillars grow and change. So.. just wanted to put it out there that if anyone has any they need to move from their plants… I’d love to safely move it to my garden! :)

Hello! I plant a large pollinator garden every year with a ton of butterfly & moth host plants for the purpose of letting them eat it but I know plenty of people that come across swallowtail caterpillars on their dill or parsley that they are growing to eat themselves so they relocate them. We haven’t had many visitors to our garden yet this year and my 5 & 3 year olds are a little bummed (honestly me too) as they love to watch the caterpillars grow and change. So.. just wanted to put it out there that if anyone has any they need to move from their plants… I’d love to safely move it to my garden! :)

Last year I had a TON of monarch butterflies all over my garden and found so many eggs and caterpillars on my milkweed but so far this year I haven’t seen any at all. Im hoping everything is just off to a late start this year since the cold went a little longer than normal but wanted to check.. Has anyone else seen or found much so far this year?

Last year I had a TON of monarch butterflies all over my garden and found so many eggs and caterpillars on my milkweed but so far this year I haven’t seen any at all. Im hoping everything is just off to a late start this year since the cold went a little longer than normal but wanted to check.. Has anyone else seen or found much so far this year?

Hello! All my 5 year old wants to do is look for, find, and study animals and wildlife. We’re in the Boonsboro area and have found plenty of random little animals/insects/reptiles around (most recently a tiny salamander in our yard and we both were amazed!), but he’s been asking to go on a hike lately so im hoping to find somewhere to take him locally that we’d have decent luck finding crawfish, salamanders, frogs, toads, and honestly anything else. It’s been a while since I’ve been out hiking and for the life of me I can’t think of anywhere young kid friendly with a creek or stream that we’d be able look around that isn’t just along an actual walking path like the boonsboro or myersville park.

I’d love to take him on some catoctin mountain trails but would like to find something a bit easier/more casual first?

Any recommendations honestly would be great! Thank you. :)

Hello! All my 5 year old wants to do is look for, find, and study animals and wildlife. We’re in the Boonsboro area and have found plenty of random little animals/insects/reptiles around (most recently a tiny salamander in our yard and we both were amazed!), but he’s been asking to go on a hike lately so im hoping to find somewhere to take him locally that we’d have decent luck finding crawfish, salamanders, frogs, toads, and honestly anything else. It’s been a while since I’ve been out hiking and for the life of me I can’t think of anywhere young kid friendly with a creek or stream that we’d be able look around that isn’t just along an actual walking path like the boonsboro park.

I’d love to take him on some catoctin mountain trails but would like to find something a bit easier/more casual first?

Any recommendations honestly would be great! Thank you. :)