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Index of Subjects Hi Jean and many others who replied re. distribution of english type ivy, Hedera: Thanks very much for all the info on this ivy. It suggests a consensus that this creeper is found only in very isolated patches, presumably surviving as an exotic introduced from Europe, in places where the microclimate might be a bit warmer in winter. As with the comment about it being an invasive menace on the warmer west coast (Washington State), my daughter in Vancouver confirms that it is seen as a pest there, for instance in Stanley Park, where it seems to have resisted periodic attempts to eradicate or control it. I agree with Chris that if this ivy really is as extremely locally distributed in N.S. as everyone has suggested, that it is very unlikely that the specialized group of plant-sucking insects that live on it has come in with it and survived, so I don't think it is a good bet searching for them in Wolfville or elsewhere. We've got only a couple of days left on this and several things left to do using local froghoppers, which are quite common at the moment and have given us some interesting results on their very powerful jumping mechanism. The best places for collecting these and related bugs with sweep nets so far have turned out to be York Redoubt just outside Halifax, but with greater variety at the Mt Uniacke estate in the bog near the stable, and in the clearing where they used to have the whale skeleton, now disappeared. It's really useful to have the collective intelligence of NatureNS available for information on things like this. Steve *************************** Quoting Jean Timpa <jtimpa@ns.sympatico.ca>: > Yes, there is quite a lot of Hedera or Ivy growing here in Wolfville. I > can meet you if you want and show you where it is, or you can probably > find it fairly easily. Stay on the north side of Main Street and walk > west from > the Save Easy grocery store (you can park out back). There are a couple of > "alley ways" which lead north to Front Street, and one particularly has a lot > of Hedera climbing the brick walls of a large older building which once upon > a very ancient time used to be the Royal Bank, and I think now has some > investiment and insurance companies in there. I am about to go downtown > to the Farmer's Market, and I will see if I can note some other > colonies of it. > I am pretty sure there is some growing on a rock wall directly across from > the Tourist Bureau in Wolfville (stop at the town park just before you come > into the business area). There is not as much plant material there, but it is > shady and perhaps less disturbed than downtown, so it might have different > fauna. JET >
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