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** David Christie spoke with Janet Hoar
in Riverside-Albert on Monday who still has a pair of BARN SWALLOWS [Hirondelle
rustique] around her home that have three fledglings that are still coming back
together at the nest site. It seems late for this scenario, but it is taking
place. Possibly due to a not commonly occurring second nesting or re-nesting after
a failed first attempt.
** Louise Richard came across more
mushrooms in Fundy National Park. She noted two similar Puffball mushrooms that
are often found in woods this time of year. The GEM-STUDDED PUFFBALL
[Champignon puffball clouté], with its projections on its outer skin, and the
smoother skinned PEAR-SHAPED PUFFBALL [Champignon puffball en forme de poire].
Both are homogenous white when cut into fresh and neither grows very large.
Louise also took note of the SHARP SCALY PHOLIOTA mushroom, which always grows
on wood and has a brown spore print. It is not used as an edible due to its
similarity to the Scaly Pholiota.
** Mushrooms are really coming into
their season at the moment. The Nature Moncton activities committee has planned
for the second half of the Nature Moncton meeting in October to be a show and
tell on mushrooms brought in by participants that have collected and
refrigerated them in a paper bag up to a week before the meeting. More on that
as October meeting draws closer
** Shawn Cormier got a very detailed
photo of an AUTUMN MEADOWHAWK dragonfly. Note the brown legs as an identity clue.
** Richard Perron submits a photo of
the noticeably large wood boring beetle the ONE-SPOTTED SAWYER BEETLE. The one
larger white spot on the front of the elytra makes it one for easier
recognition. It is fairly common, but is not considered a serious forest pest.
Richard also shares photos of two
colourful beetles he found earlier. One is the 14-SPOTTED LADY BEETLE that we
don’t tend to see often. It is small at 3-5 mm and tends to be yellow and black
in colour and would not be noted in houses like some of our introduced species.
He also photographed the red and black SWAMP MILKWEED LEAF BEETLE that has a
taste for that plant.
Nelson Poirier,
Nature Moncton
14-SPOTTED LADY BEETLE (Propylaea quatuordecimpunctata ). JULY 29, 2018. RICHARD PERRON
AUTUMN MEADOWHAWK DRAGONFLY. SEPT 24, 2018. SHAWN CORMIER
GEM-STUDDED PUFFBALL GROUP. SEPT 24, 2018. LOUISE RICHARD
GEM-STUDDED PUFFBALL GROUP. SEPT 24, 2018. LOUISE RICHARD
ONE-SPOTTED SAWYER BEETLE. SEPT 24, 2018. RICHARD PERRON
PEAR-SHAPED PUFFBALL MUSHROOM. SEPT 24, 2018. LOUISE RICHARD
SHARP-SCALY PHOLIOTA MUSHROOM. SEPT 24, 2018. LOUISE RICHARD
SWAMP MILKWEED LEAF BEETLE. (Labidomera clivicollis)JULY 14, 2018. RICHARD PERRON
