Lower Beverley Lake Association

09/07/2026

Before you squish that caterpillar, take five seconds and look closer.

That tiny leaf-muncher could be a future monarch, swallowtail, luna moth, cecropia moth, or one of many other butterflies and moths that share our gardens and landscapes.

Not every caterpillar is a pest. Caterpillars are an important part of the food web, providing protein-rich food for birds and other wildlife. Those that survive eventually become butterflies or moths, many of which visit flowers and help move pollen between plants.

Of course, caterpillars eat leaves—that’s how they grow. Some species can damage garden plants when their numbers are high, so identification matters. But automatically destroying every caterpillar can remove harmless native insects along with the troublesome ones.

Before reaching for a spray or squishing one, find out what it is. If it’s a monarch, swallowtail, luna moth, cecropia moth, or another caterpillar causing little meaningful damage, consider letting it stay.

A healthy garden doesn’t have to be insect-free. Sometimes a few chewed leaves are simply evidence that your garden is supporting life.

09/07/2026

🐦❤️ THAT CARDINAL PAIR AT YOUR FEEDER MAY HAVE A STORY YOU NEVER KNEW.

If you regularly see the same male and female cardinal together, they may not be random visitors.

Northern Cardinals often form long-term pair bonds, sometimes staying together across multiple breeding seasons.

And watch the male closely.

He may pick up a seed, fly over to his mate, and gently pass it straight to her bill. It looks almost like a tiny kiss—but it's actually courtship feeding.

Even more surprising: female cardinals sing too, something relatively unusual among North American songbirds.

So the next time that familiar pair appears at your feeder, don't just notice the bright red feathers.

Watch what they do. ❤️

You might be watching a pair that has shared the same territory—and each other's company—for years.

💬 Do you have a cardinal pair that visits your yard regularly? 🐦👇

09/07/2026

09/06/2026

09/05/2026

It's older than the dinosaurs.

The dragonfly cutting across your yard belongs to a family that's been hunting the air for 300 million years — and some of its ancient relatives had wingspans close to two feet, the size of a hawk. What's flying past you is a scaled-down survivor of a design that predates trees and nearly everything else still airborne.

And it still works flawlessly. It catches the overwhelming majority of the prey it chases — a strike rate that makes lions look clumsy — steering with four wings it beats independently to hover, reverse, and bank at speed, watching it all through eyes built from tens of thousands of lenses.

Some of them migrate, too, and not the way you'd think. The green darner crosses the continent in a relay no single dragonfly ever finishes — one generation flies part of the way and dies, and the next picks up the route. The journey outlasts any one life.

While it's here, it's clearing mosquitoes over your yard by the dozen.

09/05/2026

𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝘆 𝗥𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝟭𝟰 𝗥𝗲𝗵𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 – 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝘆 𝗥𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝟰𝟮 𝘁𝗼 𝗡𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗪𝗲𝗶𝗿 – 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟯𝟭 – 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - Township of Rideau Lakes

Location: County Road 14 – Approximately 6.2 kilometres between County Road 42 to Narrows Weir within the Township of Rideau Lakes.

Expected Start Date: August 31, 2026
Expected Demobilization Date: November 2026

*Timeline is subject to change.

Details: Construction activities shall include, but are not limited to, single-lane closures; replacement of deteriorated corrugated steel pipe (CSP) cross culverts; replacement of select entranceway culverts; in-place full depth reclamation of the existing asphalt with an expanded asphalt mixture (FDREAM), paving a surface lift of new hot mix asphalt; and select ditch cleanout.

Motorists will experience traffic disruption and are strongly encouraged to avoid the area using alternate routes whenever possible.

https://www.leedsgrenville.com/news/posts/county-road-14-rehabilitation-county-road-42-to-narrows-weir-august-31-november-2026/

09/05/2026

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