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Alden Brown up close with a milkweed plant (photo: Susie Spikol)

Kids Count for Wildlife: Monarchs and Milkweed Survey

Peterborough Peterborough

If you love monarch butterflies and want to help scientists find out more about these remarkable insects, here’s your chance! Join a team of Harris Center naturalists at a local milkweed patch, where we’ll count monarch eggs, caterpillars, and butterflies.

A monarch caterpillar on a milkweed leaf in the foreground, with a community science volunteer standing in the background. (photo: Brett Amy Thelen)

Monitoring for Monarchs

Peterborough Peterborough

Get ready for the International Monarch Monitoring Blitz by joining Harris Center ecologist Brett Amy Thelen to survey for monarch eggs, caterpillars, and butterflies in a Harris Center-conserved milkweed patch.

Children pet a corn snake. (photo: Martha Duffy)

Snake Search with Wildlife Artist Matt Patterson

Harris Center for Conservation Education 83 Kings Hwy, Hancock

Join wildlife artist, conservationist, and snake enthusiast Matt Patterson for an afternoon snake search around the Harris Center grounds! Perfect for families with children in elementary school and above.