Nature Moncton Nature News: June 9 2020

NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, June 9, 2020 (Tuesday)

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** Larry Sherrard was driving down Route 126 from Miramichi to Moncton on Monday to note a BLACK BEAR at roadside during midday and showing no fear of people. This was very possibly a two-year-old cub just advised by his mother to go on its own to find a new territory of its own. The female bears will be coming into estrus as any time now. They only go into estrus every second year as they take their first year cubs into winter dens with them but send them on their way the second spring.

**Gordon Rattray recently sent a photo of the White Spring Moth that can easily be confused with a butterfly at first glance. Gordon’s photo showed it with upright wings. Joanne Savage shares a photo of the White Spring Moth with open flattened wings to illustrate it both ways. Both photos are attached today.

**Jill Greening in Ewan, Saskatchewan was in the right place at the right time to see hundreds of spiderlings emerge from two balls of youngsters assuming that ball to be the once enclosed nest. They were located on the dryer vent of her home. Jill thinks they may be from a few large spiders she noted from her deck last summer.

**Brian Stone again found lots of action near his home off the Gorge Road site to include Alder Flycatcher again that allowed him to identify this Empidonax flycatcher for its distinct vocalization, Spotted Hawkweed was leafing out, lots of Canadian Tiger Swallowtail butterflies were moving about, fireflies were congregating, and an Icheumon wasp was present, Yellow Warbler, the small Canada Lily was in full bloom that will end up with red berries when mature, a Green Lacewing insect that is a very beneficial insect that forages on garden pests, Eastern Tent Caterpillar, a Bee Fly that likes to deposit their eggs in bee nests to feed on the be larvae, and Arctic Skipper butterfly.

Yesterday’s photo of the Forest Tent caterpillar is reattached to show the striped versus spotted line on the back to tell the Forest Tent caterpillar from the Eastern Tent caterpillar.

Brian was not able to attract Baltimore Orioles to his orange sections this year however a Red Squirrel was quite pleased about their absence!

Take a look at the enjoyment at the attached video.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xr2wdpynxcpgp0n/Squirrel%20Eating%20Orange%20.MOV?dl=0

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