NATURE MONCTON NATURE NEWS
Sept 17, 2024
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**The
September Nature Moncton meeting takes place tonight Tuesday, Sept. 17, with the
write-up below.
New
technology is going to be used as a trial to share the presentation with
participants who cannot be there in person. This is a trial effort which may
work well or maybe not!
** SEPTEMBER MONTHLY MEETING PRESENTATION
Topic:
Sea Turtles in Atlantic Canada
Tuesday, September 17, 2024, at 7:00 pm
Mapleton Park Rotary Lodge
Presenter:
April Nason
Did you know there are four species of sea
turtles present in Atlantic Canada? This
presentation will focus particularly on the unique anatomy of the most common
sea turtle in Canadian waters, the Leatherback Sea Turtle, and the historic
work of the Canadian Sea Turtle Network.
Presenter April Nason developed a life-long
interest in turtles from the pet turtles she received as a child. She completed 3 years of her marine biology
degree at UNBSJ and then swerved into dental school and a career in dentistry
until she rediscovered her love for sea turtles. Eventually, she enrolled in the Lifelong
Learning Education program at MSVU where her thesis focused on finding the love
between people and turtles. She is now
the Education and Outreach Coordinator for the Canadian Sea Turtle Network,
spending the past two years talking turtles throughout Canada and beyond.
April will also discuss cold-stunned hard
shell sea turtles, a phenomenon that is on the rise in our region, and what you
can do to help save the lives of these turtles.
This will be an in-person presentation at the
Rotary Lodge with a Zoom link for those who want to join in from home.
Join Zoom Meeting
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**John Inman had a pair of Sharp-shinned Hawks
arrive a few days ago to his Harvey yard and they are hunting the yard daily as a
team.
On Monday, a Red-tailed Hawk checked
out the baby barn and feeder for critters. It was a little slow and missed a
pigeon. A Red Squirrel had a change of mind about the feeder.
**Aldo Dorio is continuing to see Black-crowned
Night-herons in the Neguac wharf area. It would be difficult to know if
these are the same individuals that have been stopping at the site for a few days or new
individuals arriving. Aldo has seen three different birds so obviously the Neguac
wharf is an attractive stop.
**Tony Thomas’ Monday morning guests
in the moth trap included a Flame-shouldered Dart (Ochropleura
implecta). Until relatively recently (1998) our species was thought to
be the same species as UK's Flame Shoulder (Ochropleura plecta).
The UK species overwinters as a pupa; if this is so for our species, any eggs laid now
will have to develop very quickly to get to a pupa before the heavy
frosts.
Moth identification is now easy
thanks to the 2012 Peterson Field Guide:
https://www.amazon.ca/Peterson-Field-Guide-Northeastern-America/dp/0547238487
**Wayne Fairchild came across an
interesting site about ‘buzz pollination,' a technique used by certain bees to
get into the closed-off pollen areas of certain species of plants. Take a look
at this interesting scenario of buzz pollination at the attached link below:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/bees-vibrate-unlock-secret-stash-pollen
Wayne also sends a video he took
himself in his yard of bees as they were appearing to do the same thing with the
cultivar Obedient plant as seen in the link below:
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
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