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Photo of the Month - June 2009

Your photo could be featured as Nature Canada's Photo of the Month.

1. Tell us your name, where you took the photo, and a brief description or story explaining the photo.

2. Image should be a .jpg file, smaller than 1MB.

3.When you submit a photo, you agree to allow Nature Canada to use your photo on our Web site, enewsletter, ecards and other educational materials. Every effort will be made to credit you as the photographer.

Hello Nature Canada,

This milkweed pod was photographed at Hendrie Valley, Burlington, Ontario.

Jean Crankshaw
Ontario

Thanks for sharing this finely textured photo of an autumn milkweed pod spreading its seeds with us, Jean!

This is the perfect time of year to see milkweed in bloom. If you're lucky, you may even see a monarch butterfly among the flowers. The monarch butterfly is often known as the "milkweed butterfly" because milkweed is the only plant monarch larvae can eat. Find out more about milkweed, and how you can grow it in your own yard to help monarchs, in our butterfly garden guide.

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