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Sept. 22, 2006 - łOUR MONARCH˛ (the one I łhatched˛ from a chrysalis yesterday) was still on our porch in the morning, so Pat placed it in the sunlight on a cedar bush. About a half-hour later I saw it fly only about 25 metres and land on a flower in our garden. I took another couple of PHOTOS of it. [It spent most of the day on our lawn and then disappeared by late afternoon; Iąm not optimistic that it was able to fly away for any distance.] Then back to the BOGANSą MONARCH FACTORY at Cambridge Station for more photos of MONARCH CHRYSALISES, new MONARCH, and MILKWEED FRUITS/SEEDS, with new camera batteries. Overnight several of the Bogansą darkened chrysalises were now empty from emergences over the past 24 hours, and I found 2 or 3 newly emerged ADULT MONARCHS. In afternoon our back yard had a nice group of 15+ very actively foraging AM. ROBINS plus a NORTHERN FLICKER. I presume that this marks a new wave of ROBINS passing through our area? Sept. 23, 2006 - Today at a meeting of the Board of the Federation of Nova Scotia Naturalists, alias now Nature Nova Scotia, Jeannie Gibson Collins (our treasurer) produced a BRAND NEW ADULT MONARCH BUTTERFLY, which was in the process of emergence, having gotten out of the chrysalis and was now expanding its crumpled new wings. This was another product of what I now call łBOGANSą MONARCH FACTORY˛, i.e., the property of Allison and Larry Bogan at Cambridge Station, Kingąs County (west of Kentville). This chrysalis was the second of two that the Bogans brought to the Blomidon Naturalists Society meeting on Sept. 18; I got the first one and it produced an adult monarch on Sept. 21. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville, 542-9204 --------------------- Jim (James W.) Wolford 91 Wickwire Avenue Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada B4P 1W3 phone (902)542-9204 (home) fax (902)585-1059 (Acadia Univ. Biology Dept.) e-mail <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> ---------------------- łIn every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.˛ -- John Muir ----------------------
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