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**This
week’s Nature Moncton Wednesday evening walk tonight, August 12, will take place
at the Tucker Street Ducks Unlimited impoundment with all details below:
AUGUST
12 WEDNESDAY EVENING WALK
Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2026, 6:30 PM
Location:
Tucker Street Lagoons, Upper Coverdale
Leaders: Judy Cairns and Dale Pugh
Meeting
place: Tucker Street is located at
approximately 1569 Coverdale Road - Route 112. Go to the very end of Tucker
Street where there is ample parking space.
Join us for
a view of the Tucker Street Lagoons in Upper Coverdale. This walk begins with
the descent of a long and steep hill that is the access road, but the trails
around the compounds are flat and easy. Over 1.6 KM, we can expect to see some
returning shorebirds and a variety of ducks.
Bug spray
and protective clothing are recommended. Don’t forget to wear your name tag
too! All are welcome,
Nature Moncton members or not.
**Sue and
Fred Richards were checking their milkweed patch for monarch butterfly
caterpillars and saw a spined soldier bug consuming a caterpillar and
got a photograph.
The
caterpillar had been attacked and was almost lifeless, and the bug was
trying to pull it somewhere or consume it there, not sure.
It made them
glad to have three monarch butterfly caterpillars on milkweed branches protected in
a screened cage.
(Editor’s
note: The literature says that the spined soldier bug will eat a monarch
butterfly caterpillar. These generalist predatory
stink bugs pierce the caterpillar with a sharp, straw-like mouthpart, injecting
paralyzing venom, and drink its liquefied insides. They can be found hunting on
milkweed plants where the caterpillar larvae are found.)
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
