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FRIEND or FOE SERIES

INSECTS ARE EVERYWHERE and they are the most diverse creatures in the world! It’s impossible to keep them out of our gardens, but that's not necessarily a bad thing because a wide variety of insect life promotes biodiversity!

The TSMG's are pleased to bring you the 'FRIEND OR FOE' series!  We will look at a common garden insect to determine whether it is a Friend or Foe (or both)!

Posters of the following 'Friend or Foe' are included as .pdf documents at the bottom of this page.

Emerging from the winter of 2021-22, I am more eager than ever to notice signs of spring. This Vancouver winter seems to have been longer than ever; after all we live here because we don’t want to shovel snow. Once again, we didn’t travel outside Canada, giving ourselves the excuse of rising airfares, but it could have been Covid that discouraged us and our irrational desire to wait out the challenges at home. And then there were the three long periods of snow and ice, when we in Vancouver are accustomed to one to three days at the most of sub-zero temperatures and snow.

When is a tree not a tree? When it’s a palm, a single-stemmed monocotyledon.