City of Brunswick issued the following announcement on Oct. 15.
A tip from the Medina County Soil and Water Conservation District:
Where do caterpillars and butterflies go during the winter? We know Monarch butterflies fly 3000 miles to Mexico, but what about the rest of our Ohio butterfly and moth population? Where do they go? Most do not migrate. Some winter over as caterpillars. An example is the wooly bear. Some are in egg and chrysalis stages attached to leaves and stems. Many caterpillar and moth larvae hide in leaves for warmth. When raking leaves into a pile, please leave that pile at the edge of the yard or under a tree so larvae stages have a warm place to sleep in winter.
Yard debris accounts for more than 33 million tons of waste in landfills every year (US EPA). Leaving the leaves on your lawn benefits wildlife and mulching the leaves into the lawn provides free fertilizer and suppresses annual weeds like dandelions. One place that leaves never belong is in a storm drain, so put your leaves to work for you or dispose of them properly.
Original source can be found here.
Source: City of Brunswick
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