** The 1st Nature Moncton
workshop will be held on Sunday afternoon, September 27, at the Tankville
School. The details of this workshop are attached below, and also attached as a
pdf file to the membership mail-out.
The Fossils at
Joggins
Workshop with Dr. Melissa
Grey
Sunday September 27,
2015
The Joggins Fossil Institute is a
not-for-profit charitable organization that manages the Joggins Fossil Cliffs
UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Cliffs
represent a time over 300 million years ago wherein club mosses could grow over
30m tall, dragonflies had a meter wing span, and millipedes were the size of
humans! In this presentation,
participants will learn about why the Joggins beach is such a special place and
what the Institute does to foster earth history education and
conservation.
Dr. Melissa Grey is a palaeontologist
with a background in Biology and Zoology.
She obtained her doctorate in Geological Sciences at the University of
British Columbia, her Masters in Zoology from the University of Guelph and her
Bachelors in Biology from Acadia University.
She has lived and worked across Canada, but is happy to be back in her
home province studying fossils.
Sunday September 27, 1:00 to 3:00 pm
Tankville School,
1665 Elmwood Dr., Moncton
Registration with Judi Berry-Steeves at
jbsteeve@nbnet.nb.ca or phone
Judi at 387-4778.
$8 payable at the door.
All are welcome, Nature Moncton member or
not.
** Kerry Tate
shares a nice photo of an AMERICAN TOAD
[Crapaud d’Amérique] that recently cooperated for
a close up photo.
** We’re well
into September and MEADOWHAWK DRAGONFLIES are still active along with some
others, especially the DARNERS. Brian Stone shares a photo of a female
Meadowhawk dragonfly; however some of the Meadowhawk species can be
hard-to-impossible to identify on photos.
** Aldo Dorio
got a photo of a juvenile RUDDY TURNSTONE [Tournepierre a collier] on Monday.
They surely are bland compared to their brightly dressed parents.
** Nolie
Schneider, a moth enthusiast in the Ottawa area, made some interesting comments
on the TREBLE-BAR MOTH distributed yesterday. Apparently this moth was
introduced into British Columbia from Europe in 1976 supposedly as a biological
control for the plant St. John’s Wort. She also points out BugGuide says that
attempts to introduce the moth into the Maritime provinces had been
unsuccessful; that may be changing as Martin Turgeon in St-Basille reported one
to BugGuide a few weeks ago. There’s no doubt a lot more in NB now than these
2. It is found in southern Quebec and several western states, and Nolie
Schneider says she sees it every year now in the Ottawa area seeming to have a
spring and fall brood.
Nature Moncton
AMERICAN TOAD.SEPT 17, 2015.KAREE TAIT
MEADOWHAWK DRAGONFLY ( FEMALE ). SEPT. 21, 2015. BRIAN STONE
NORTHERN HARRIER.SEPT 21, 2015.ALDO DORIO
RUDDY TURNSTONE (JUVENILE).SEPT 21, 2015.ALDO DORIO
