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> This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --Boundary_(ID_QiI6wfP2yOrmoymlgMR7bQ) Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable [I just found this in my Drafts folder and perhaps it had never been sent? Apologies if this is the second time you have seen this. JW] Thanks again, Nancy! You beat me to it, in visiting those milkweeds not fa= r from the Port Williams School. Your report sounds great, like the monarchs are having a big year, both in terms of having recovered in a big way from the heavy mortality in Mexico overwintering sites two? or three? winters ago, and in having another big reproductive year. Thus the reports earlier of migrating monarchs at Cape Sable Island remain enigmatic. Murray or Johnny et al., anything more to add to this, in terms of more recent sightings at CSI? Cheers from Jim in Wolfville, 542-9204 ---------- From: "Nickerson, Nancy" <NickersonN@AGR.GC.CA> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:58:25 -0400 To: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> Subject: RE: Acadia Woodland Trails Saturday 22 July 2006; Monarch update Hi Jim:=20 Yes, a lot of egg-laying has been going on in my Swamp Milkweed patch and there are now a few more very small larvae. This morning I visited the patch of Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) [no= t far from] the Port Williams school. At 8:30 there were already eight adult Monarchs visiting the flowers, laying eggs, hanging out in the trees and generally going about the business of being adult Monarchs. There were lots of eggs, especially on the smaller (younger) milkweed shoots on and near th= e paths, a few very small larvae, and three large larvae that will probably pupate within the next day or so. I didn=B9t see any pupae. This is a good, relatively accessible place to see not only the various stages of the Monarch life cycle but also other insects that visit milkweeds. There were various other butterflies, moths, beetles, lacewings etc. that would be worth another visit=8A. Cheers, Nancy=20 -----Original Message----- From: Jim Wolford [mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca] Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 6:29 PM To: Nickerson, Nancy Subject: FW: Acadia Woodland Trails Saturday 22 July 2006; Monarch update Thanks, Nancy -- that's fast work with the monarchs! Good for you! Have you seen more larvae on your back-yard plants? Jim ---------- From: "Nickerson, Nancy" <NickersonN@AGR.GC.CA> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:36:31 -0400 To: jimwolford@eastlink.ca Subject: Acadia Woodland Trails Saturday 22 July 2006; Monarch update Hi Jim:=20 On the weekend I released ten adult Monarchs (four males and six females) i= n my Swamp Milkweed patch in Port Williams. These were from small larvae tha= t I had collected from the same milkweed patch earlier this month and reared indoors.=20 Cheers, Nancy=20 Nancy Nickerson=20 Research Scientist / Chercheur scientifique Biodiversity (Mycology and Botany) / Biodiversit=E9 (Mycologie et Botanique) Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada/Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada Telephone/T=E9l=E9phone: 902-679-5710 Facsimile/T=E9l=E9copieur: 902-679-2311 32 Main Street=20 Kentville, Nova Scotia B4N 1J5=20 nickersonn@agr.gc.ca --Boundary_(ID_QiI6wfP2yOrmoymlgMR7bQ) Content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Valley MONARCHS -- still egg-laying by adults, small and large larva= e, etc.</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> [I just found this in my Drafts folder and perhaps it had never been sent? = Apologies if this is the second time you have seen this. JW]<BR> <BR> Thanks again, Nancy! You beat me to it, in visiting those milkweeds n= ot far from the Port Williams School. Your report sounds great, like t= he monarchs are having a big year, both in terms of having recovered in a bi= g way from the heavy mortality in Mexico overwintering sites two? or three? = winters ago, and in having another big reproductive year. Thus the rep= orts earlier of migrating monarchs at Cape Sable Island remain enigmatic. &n= bsp;Murray or Johnny et al., anything more to add to this, in terms of more = recent sightings at CSI?<BR> <BR> Cheers from Jim in Wolfville, 542-9204<BR> ----------<BR> <B>From: </B>"Nickerson, Nancy" <NickersonN@AGR.GC.CA><BR> <B>Date: </B>Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:58:25 -0400<BR> <B>To: </B>Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca><BR> <B>Subject: </B>RE: Acadia Woodland Trails Saturday 22 July 2006; Monarch u= pdate<BR> <BR> <FONT SIZE=3D"2"><FONT FACE=3D"Arial">Hi Jim:</FONT></FONT> <BR> <FONT SIZE=3D"2"><FONT FACE=3D"Arial">Yes, a lot of egg-laying has been going o= n in my Swamp Milkweed patch and there are now a few more very small larvae.= <BR> </FONT></FONT><BR> <FONT SIZE=3D"2"><FONT FACE=3D"Arial">This morning I visited the patch of Commo= n Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) [not far from] the Port Williams school. At 8= :30 there were already eight adult Monarchs visiting the flowers, laying egg= s, hanging out in the trees and generally going about the business of being = adult Monarchs. There were lots of eggs, especially on the smaller (younger)= milkweed shoots on and near the paths, a few very small larvae, and three l= arge larvae that will probably pupate within the next day or so. I didn=B9t se= e any pupae. This is a good, relatively accessible place to see not only the= various stages of the Monarch life cycle but also other insects that visit = milkweeds. There were various other butterflies, moths, beetles, lacewings e= tc. that would be worth another visit=8A. <BR> </FONT></FONT><BR> <FONT SIZE=3D"2"><FONT FACE=3D"Arial">Cheers,</FONT></FONT> <FONT SIZE=3D"2= "><FONT FACE=3D"Arial">Nancy <BR> </FONT></FONT><BR> <FONT SIZE=3D"2">-----Original Message-----<BR> <B>From:</B> Jim Wolford [mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca] <BR> <B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, July 25, 2006 6:29 PM<BR> <B>To:</B> Nickerson, Nancy<BR> <B>Subject:</B> FW: Acadia Woodland Trails Saturday 22 July 2006; Monarch u= pdate</FONT> <BR> <BR> <FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman"> Thanks, Nancy -- that's fast work with the mo= narchs! Good for you! Have you seen more larvae on your back-yar= d plants? Jim<BR> ----------<BR> <B>From: </B>"Nickerson, Nancy" <NickersonN@AGR.GC.CA><BR> <B>Date: </B>Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:36:31 -0400<BR> <B>To: </B>jimwolford@eastlink.ca<BR> <B>Subject: </B>Acadia Woodland Trails Saturday 22 July 2006; Monarch updat= e<BR> <BR> </FONT><FONT SIZE=3D"2"><FONT FACE=3D"Arial">Hi Jim:</FONT></FONT> <BR> <BR> <FONT SIZE=3D"2"><FONT FACE=3D"Arial">On the weekend I released ten adult Monar= chs (four males and six females) in my Swamp Milkweed patch in Port Williams= . These were from small larvae that I had collected from the same milk= weed patch earlier this month and reared indoors. <BR> </FONT></FONT><BR> <FONT SIZE=3D"2"><FONT FACE=3D"Arial">Cheers,</FONT></FONT> <FONT SIZE=3D"2"><FON= T FACE=3D"Arial">Nancy <BR> </FONT></FONT><BR> <FONT SIZE=3D"2"><FONT FACE=3D"Arial">Nancy Nickerson</FONT></FONT> <BR> <FONT SIZE=3D"2"><FONT FACE=3D"Arial">Research Scientist / Chercheur scientifiq= ue<BR> Biodiversity (Mycology and Botany) / Biodiversit=E9 (Mycologie et Botanique)<= BR> Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada/Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada<BR> Telephone/T=E9l=E9phone: 902-679-5710<BR> Facsimile/T=E9l=E9copieur: 902-679-2311</FONT></FONT> <BR> <FONT SIZE=3D"2"><FONT FACE=3D"Arial">32 Main Street</FONT></FONT> <BR> <FONT SIZE=3D"2"><FONT FACE=3D"Arial">Kentville, Nova Scotia <BR> B4N 1J5</FONT></FONT> <BR> <FONT SIZE=3D"2"><FONT FACE=3D"Arial">nickersonn@agr.gc.ca</FONT></FONT> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> </BODY> </HTML> --Boundary_(ID_QiI6wfP2yOrmoymlgMR7bQ)--
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