[NatureNS] salt-marsh caterpillar [acrea moth] and Can. holly berries at Wolfville

Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 00:12:15 -0400
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Nov. 7, 2006 - Along the top of the main dyke east of Wolfville Harbour I
found a full-grown reddish-brown WOOLLY-BEAR CATERPILLAR known as the
SALT-MARSH CATERPILLAR, whose adult is known as an ACREA MOTH, Eustigmene
acrea .  Wagner¹s new guide to caterpillars says this larva is extremely
variable in colour and in pattern of colour.

In the Wolfville Waterfront Park, just to the left of the west entrance and
along the southern boundary fence, are numerous planted bushes of CANADA
HOLLY that are LOADED with gorgeous bright red BERRIES, which have not yet
been stripped by robins or starlings or other fruit-eaters.  I hope that
humans will leave them there, too, for the wildlife.

Wolfville Harbour at high tide held no shorebirds at all, just a pair of
RING-BILLED GULLS.  Wolfville sewage ponds held perhaps 30 RING-BILLED GULLS
and a few HERRING GULLS -- no ICELAND GULLS there yet.

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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