Nature Moncton Nature News: August 6 2019

NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, August 06, 2019 (Tuesday)

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Info Line # 506-384-6397 (384-NEWS)

** Theresa McCready got an excellent photo of a GALLIUM SPHINX MOTH caterpillar, aka Bedstraw Sphinx, in her overgrown Young’s Cove flower garden on Monday. This is a very variable caterpillar and can occur in different colour patterns but this one is a dead ringer.

** I doubt we will ever tire of new MONARCH BUTTERFLY [Monarque] reports this season. Pat Gibbs noticed her first Monarch butterfly in her garden at the Dieppe/Moncton border near the junction of the Old Shediac Rd. and the Lewisville Rd. Pat comments that it is the first that she has ever seen at her location and the first she has seen in many years.

** Richard Perron got a photo of the quite colourful TWICE-STABBED STINK BUG in the Cocagne area on Saturday. Nature probably has some very good reasons for it to be so colourful.

** Aldo Dorio is noting the shorebirds foraging in the tide washed Eel Grass for delicacies on Hay Island. He also photographed a Pitcher Plant in bloom.

** I am pleased to make an emergence (birth) announcement on Monday. My first of the season MONARCH BUTTERFLY [Monarque] chrysalis started to show a bit of darkening a few days ago and on Monday morning the markings of wings could be seen through the thinning chrysalis as in the photo. I kept an eye on it frequently but still missed the actual emergence which must have happened very fast as suddenly there was an adult butterfly drying its wings on the empty chrysalis. I hope she will make it to Mexico.

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