NATURE MONCTON NATURE NEWS
July 30, 2024
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**Tonight’s
Nature Moncton Wednesday evening walk has been canceled.
Activities committee chairperson Cynthia
Doucet and outing leader Gordon Rattray have been watching the weather and feel
the conditions forecast for tonight are not safe to take a group into a flat
treeless low area. The Weather Network is forecasting 29 C° with humidex
of 36 C° and Environment Canada has 30 C° and humidex of 38 C° for Moncton.
The
good news consolation prize is that next Wednesday’s evening walk will be to
the Clancy property in Steve’s Settlement with an earlier evening start.
Stay
tuned!
**Verica LeBlanc’s flowerbeds in Nelson, Miramichi continue to attract welcome pollinating/nectar seeking patrons. Verica had a Twelve-spotted Skimmer dragonfly hunting in her flowerbeds as well as a Carrot Seed Moth (Sitochroa palealis) in her Coneflower patch. The literature reports that this moth can create ultrasonic sounds as a defense mechanism against echo-locating bats which unfortunately must be less of a problem for them since the onset of White-nose fungus infection in our bat population.
(Editor’s
note: the late flowering Coneflower is a highly sought after target for a wide
host of patrons who now are seeking it for its nectar and later for its seeds.)
**There
has been a long-standing Bald Eagle nest on Mud Creek in Lower Coverdale
on the Bissett property.
Patricia
Pelletier has been monitoring it this season and reports that the adult eagles have been
seen around the nest for some time but nesting was unsuccessful this year.
**Jane
LeBlanc saw her first Monarch butterfly caterpillar late on Tuesday.
Jane still is having Monarch butterflies around her yard in St. Martins laying eggs.
**Aldo Dorio photographed a very contented-looking Osprey with a prize catch of its favourite food source on Tuesday.
**July of 2024 may be slipping away on us today but we still have three to four months of beautiful activity in New Brunswick. Nothing will stop that; it will just change gears!
Nature Moncton
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