Nature Moncton Nature News: Sept 3 2019

NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, September 03, 2019 (Tuesday)

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** Louise Nichols was out walking in a field in the Aulac area on Sunday and saw several mostly fresh looking butterflies enjoying the Goldenrod along a stretch of an old, dry road. She saw both AMERICAN LADY [Vanesse de Virginie] and PAINTED LADY [Belle dame] butterflies for comparison. Louise also saw a somewhat faded ATLANTIS FRITILLARY [Argynne de l'Atlantique] with the dark margin around the edge of the wings.

Louise also did her shorebird survey count at Ann’s Acres, near Cape Jourimain Sunday evening and found 7 species of shorebirds (all the expected ones), the greatest numbers being GREATER YELLOWLEGS [Grand Chevalier] and LESSER YELLOWLEGS [Petit Chevalier]. Still no Dunlins or Sanderlings. So far this year Louise comments that there seems to be less variety at that site than usual.

** Jane Leblanc reports that she still has at least 5 MONARCH BUTTERFLY [Monarque] caterpillars on her yard Common Milkweed and at varying instars.

** It is very much caterpillar time … Brian Stone paid a brief visit to Mapleton Park to see a SPOTTED TUSSOCK MOTH caterpillar as well as a WOOLLY BEAR caterpillar. The Woolly Bear is the larval stage of the Isabella Tiger Moth and will overwinter as the larval caterpillar, the dark ends getting shorter and the reddish middle longer as time passes until spring to then pupate and result in the emerged flying adult. A cooperative GREEN FROG [Grenouille verte] happened by and a GEM-STUDDED PUFFBALL MUSHROOM cooperated even better. All puffballs are edible except the Pigskin Poison Puffball which is almost always black when cut in cross section.

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