NATURE MONCTON NATURE NEWS
July 19, 2022 (Tuesday)
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**This week’s Nature Moncton Wednesday night (tonight, July 20) trail walk will be led by Lois Budd to enjoy the Salisbury Highland Park Wetlands Trail.
The
trail is wide with small gravel, all on one level so easy for all to enjoy.
Lois suggests
parking off Macdonald Road, first road on the left past the Pizza Mill with the
big water wheel. Come down to the end, onto the gravel and park on the right
as indicated. There is also parking of Highland Road and a short walk
through the park to the Wetlands Trail.
Salisbury Wetlands
is home to many interesting water birds including Common Gallinule, Pied-billed
Grebe, and American Coot (see David Miller’s attached photo). Participants
should also see some milkweed as well as many other plants. The group can make
a short detour to the river by way of a mowed wide path, bit of a grade down
but easy. There are benches to sit on all around the park for a rest.
Lois looks forward
to seeing folks at her Wetlands this Wednesday Night at 6:30. If
just walking it is about a 30 min. walk around but being Nature lovers of all
that is to be seen she expects participants will enjoy a couple of hours there.
Short pants are okay, bug repellant recommended. Thanks to David Miller for
permission to use his American Coot chick photo taken on Sunday, July 17th,
2022.
Sunny evening forecast!
**Jane LeBlanc in
St. Martins has had 2 and sometimes 3 Monarch Butterflies laying eggs on
her milkweed every day for at least a week. When the Fundy Gardeners were
there on Sunday to tour her garden, many eyes found several caterpillars of
different sizes.
Jane LeBlanc also found an interesting insect on a
leaf of a milkweed plant on Monday morning. It didn't seem able to fly but
looked quite menacing. Jane got a nice photograph.
Brian Stone did an Internet search and was able to
find an excellent match which was a Cimbicid Sawfly (Trichiosoma Triangulum)
**Over the past weeks, many of us may have noticed an abundance of Lady Beetles flying about. They were on mating flights, and we are now seeing the results of that mission. The eggs have hatched and are now appearing as larval caterpillars. Daryl Doucette got a photo of just that on Tuesday.
Many Lady Beetle species' favourite fodder is aphids, and it is the larva that we are seeing now that are the main foragers of those delicious protein packed aphids. (Editors note: participants on tonight’s Nature Moncton walk can expect to see many aphids at work)
Nelson Poirier
Nature
Moncton
