[NatureNS] re warmness and flowers and lady beetles

Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 16:48:58 -0400
From: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>
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I forgot to add below that I had just seen one of the multi-coloured Asian
lady beetles just a day or two ago on the wood panels of the Robie Tufts
Nature Centre in Wolfville.  This is the species that often seeks out houses
or other buildings in which to overwinter in groups or even large numbers
together.  Jim in Wolfville
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From: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 16:45:39 -0400
To: NatureNS <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>, Judy & Gordon Tufts
<tandove@ns.sympatico.ca>
Subject: FW: balmy temperatures and new flowers -- of what species?? etc.

Thanks, Judy.  I'll take a look at those Wolfville Waterfront plants, but I
had better do it soon!  Your lady beetle was very probably one of the
multi-spotted Asian species, introduced, which is incredibly varied in how
many spots it has, from about 19 (usual, in rows of 4-5 spots) to many fewer
or actually no spots at all -- if you can find one of the old Can. Nature
Fed. brochures around, check out the pattern of black and white on the
thorax, which is not variable much if at all.

Cheers from Jim in Wolfville
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From: Judy Tufts <tandove@ns.sympatico.ca>
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 21:28:09 -0400
To: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>
Subject: RE: balmy temperatures and new flowers -- of what species?? etc.

Found several shrubs in the Waterfront Park in Wolfville bursting their buds
- sorry I do not know the identity of those shrubs - plus lots of Pink
Clover, dandelion and Queeen Anne's Lace in bloom in same area. There was a
non-native multi-spotted ladybug on one of the shrubs. Possibly 13-spotted
ladybug? It was a dull orange in colour and the spots tended to be 'smudged'
together. 

Side-note: In our garden all the primula plants are in full bloom, also some
pansies, and tiny ants have begun appearing in our kitchen.

Cheers
Judy 

>>>>>>>>>>>
 Judy  Tufts
 Wolfville
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Wolford [mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca]
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 7:22 PM
To: NatureNS
Subject: balmy temperatures and new flowers -- of what species?? etc.

Nov. 17, 2006 - Unbelievably WARM WEATHER for mid-November!  Today is the
thirds day in a row of temperatures of 15 to 19 Celsius! And I am wearing
shorts just like the students and Sam VanderKloet!  Today my car registered
a high temperature of 21 C.!  Lots of people out jogging and biking and
walking, and quite a few FLOWERS are still in bloom in gardens and along
roadsides.

FLOWERS noted today in Wolfville without any searching were VARROW, COMMON
SENECIO/RAGWORT?, and two weedy species of MALLOWS, including ³CHEESES².
All of these were clearly plants with NEW GROWTH and NEW FLOWERS, rather
than blossoms that had been formed weeks ago and preserved by autumn
weather.

Perhaps via NatureNS e-mails we can find out what species of new flowers
have been noted by naturalists during this balmy few days lately?

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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