**Gabriel Gallant has recently been noting small 3-5mm
caterpillars in significant numbers on the foliage of a cultivar SOUR CHERRY
TREE at his Sainte Marie de Kent home. With the help of Bug Guide it has been
identified as the PEAR SLUG, aka CHERRY SLUG. They get the name "slug" due to
its appearance but is actually the larval caterpillar of a SAWFLY
[Caliroa cerasi]
Gabriel got some nice photos of these small
caterpillars.
**Georges Brun checked the drained down area of Jones Lake,
east of Milner Rd fire station on September 26 again to observe HOODED
MERGANSERS, WOOD DUCK and DOUBLE CRESTED CORMORANT assembled there.
**Brian Stone got 2 photos showing very different plumage
stages of the EASTERN PHOEBE. One bird is an adult appearing to be in pre
basic molt while the second is a juvenile that appears to have already completed
molt into basic plumage. Brian also got a fall photo of a YELLOW RUMPED
WARBLER.
Thanks to Dave Christie and Gilles Belliveau for confirming the
eastern phoebe.
*Aldo Dorio also for a photo of a fall YELLOW RUMPED WARBLER.
Note the delineated white throat and the white split eye crescents in Aldo's
photo. Aldo also got a White-throated Sparrow in a Winterberry Holly shrub.
Nelson Poirier,
Nature Moncton
DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT (JUVENILE) SEPT 26 2016 GEORGES BRUN (4)
EASTERN PHOEBE (ADULT IN BASIC PLUMAGE). SEPT. 26, 2016. BRIAN STONE
EASTERN PHOEBE (JUVENILE NEAR MOLT). SEPT. 26, 2016. BRIAN STONE
HOODED MERGANSER SEPT 26 2016 GEORGES BRUN (1)
HOODED MERGANSERS. SEPT 26 2016 GEORGES BRUN (1)
PEAR SLUG AKA CHERRY SLUG CATERPILLLA (A SAWFLY Caliroa cerasi).SEPT 24, 2016.GABRIEL GALLANT,
PEAR SLUG AKA CHERRY SLUG CATERPILLLA (A SAWFLY Caliroa cerasi).SEPT 24, 2016.GABRIEL GALLANT,
WHITE-THROATED SPARROW.SEPT 27, 2016.ALDO DORIO
WOOD DUCK SEPT 26 2016 GEORGES BRUN
YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER. SEPT. 26, 2016. BRIAN STONE
YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER.SEPT 27, 2016.ALDO DORIO
