[NatureNS] update on monarch emergences - one more today

Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 21:02:06 -0300
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Sept. 22, 2006 - ³OUR MONARCH² (the one I ³hatched² 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; Iım not optimistic that it was able to fly away for any
distance.]

Then back to the BOGANSı 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 Bogansı 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 ³BOGANSı MONARCH FACTORY², i.e., the property of Allison and Larry
Bogan at Cambridge Station, Kingıs 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
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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>
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³In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.²  -- John
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