Nature Moncton Nature News: June 2 2019

NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, June 2, 2019 (Sunday)

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** Krista Doyle has had a BALTIMORE ORIOLE [Oriole de Baltimore] appear near her Lewis Mountain home. Baltimore Oriole plumage can be very variable. I’m not labelling this for gender or maturity, but would welcome comments. Krista also had a female RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD [Colibri à gorge rubis] enjoying her nectar offering.

** Brian Stone got a bright adult male Baltimore Oriole to his orange feeder on Saturday. Note the wooden feeder, built by Allan Shea for both Brian and I It has a perch area, a wooden dowel goes through the orange and a bit of a roof. It’s a nice arrangement, designed for use by fruit connoisseurs, and obviously works. Mine is up, but still waiting for a tenant.

Brian also has a pair of GRAY CATBIRDS coming to oranges with the oriole. The reddish breast on Brian’s photos of the catbirds is reflection from the oranges.

** The program for the June 18^th meeting of Nature Moncton has just gone up on the website, as there were some problems getting the details from the presenter. It appears that it will be an excellent presentation by an authority on wasps and bees. I’m attaching it below, and webmaster Brian Stone has it on the website at http://www.naturemoncton.com under upcoming events.

Nature Moncton June 2019 Meeting

June 18, 2019. 7:00 pm

Mapleton Rotary Lodge (across from former Cabela’s)

Wasps, Hornets, Bees and Insect Ecology Research in Our Region
Guest Speaker: Gaëtan Moreau, entomology professor UdeM

Hymenoptera are the second most diverse animal order on the planet after beetles, with more than 230,000 species described and many new species documented every day. They are, however, unpopular, largely due to the bad reputation of wasps, hornets and ants. Even species essential to our way of life such as honeybees and wild bumblebees are victims of this bad press because of widespread confusion among non-specialists as to their identification. In this presentation, we will discuss the importance of this order, their ecological role (what is a wasp doing other than stinging people) and their identification. Finally, we will discuss insect ecology research currently carried out in Southeastern New Brunswick.

Nelson Poirier, nelsonpoirier435@gmail.com

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