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**Katie Girvan always
checks her front porch area light as that’s where moths like to gather. On
Monday morning, a large fresh polyphemus moth was just hanging (literally)
on her forsythia bush. Katie moved the branch to get an excellent spread-wing photo
to show all its striking markings.
(Editor’s note: the polyphemus
moth is one of our largest giant silkworm moths with the adults now on their
relatively short mating flights. It ranges 100-150 mm wingspan!)
**Aldo Dorio photographed a
Baltimore checkerspot butterfly in his Neguac yard. This butterfly tends
to favour the turtle head plant as its host plant to lay eggs.
**The
introduced Manitoba maple a.k.a. box elder is sometimes called our rogue maple
as its compound leaves are five-parted, not the typical maple leaf shape.
Nelson Poirier noted several large Manitoba maple trees on Saturday
during a field trip with Nature Miramichi on Strawberry Marsh and took note of
the white to pink or violet waxy coating of the young shoots to help identify
it.
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
