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Editor: Nelson Poirier    Proofreader: Louise Nichols

Wednesday, 20 August 2025

August 20 2025

 

 

NATURE MONCTON NATURE NEWS

August 20, 2025

 

Nature Moncton members as well as any naturalist in New Brunswick or beyond are invited to share their photos and descriptions of recent nature sightings to build a fresh (almost) daily edition of Nature News

 

 

To respond by e-mail, please address your message to the information line editor,  nelsonpoirier435@gmail.com .

 

Please advise the editor at nelsonpoirier435@gmail.com  if any errors are noted in wording or photo labelling.


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**The weekly Wednesday Nature Moncton walk will be taking place tonight on the Riverfront Trail. All details below:

**Date:  Wednesday, August 20, 2025, 6:30 PM

Location:  Moncton Riverfront Trail

Meeting place:  Bore Park, 10 Bendview Court (Off Main Street), Moncton

Leader:  Dan Hicks

 

Join us on Wednesday, August 20, at 6:30 PM for a walk on Moncton's Riverfront Trail. We will be starting at Bore Park, heading west, and our walk leader will be Dan Hicks, City of Moncton's Director of Parks. Walkers will enjoy a flat and paved trail with some fine crushed gravel and views of the Petitcodiac River and surrounding habitat. The tidal bore is scheduled to arrive at 8:29 PM that evening. Please wear your Nature Moncton name tag, if you have one. All are welcome, Nature Moncton members or not! 

 

**Suzanne Rousseau in Sussex reports that a milkweed tussock moth caterpillar was spotted in a neighbour's milkweed patch.

This caterpillar may be very pleasing to the eye but is very destructive to a patch of milkweed if it appears in numbers which it often does when it occurs. A group of caterpillars will move in unison like an army eating their way through and capable of skeletonizing a milkweed patch.

 

Nelsonpoirier435@gmail.com

 Nelson Poirier

Nature Moncton



MILKWEED TUSSOCK MOTH CATERPILLAR. AUG 19, 2025. VIA SUZANNE ROUSSEAU


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

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