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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 --------------------- 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> ---------------------- ³Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.² -- Whitney M. Young -- [found in Nov. 2/06 Chronicle Herald] ----------------------
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