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Aug. 23, 2007 - Lots of small black WINGED REPRODUCTIVE ANTS (males?) at home in Wolfville. At her Hustonıs Beach home in Lower Blomidon, in a pear tree, Jennifer Foster noticed a few eaten leaves and then noticed a huge green CATERPILLAR studded with ornamental papillae of a couple of colours, including reddish. She brought it to Grand Pre where we were having supper with friends, and I was happy to identify it as a fully grown CECROPIA MOTH CATERPILLAR. At home in Wolfville I took a couple of PHOTOS of it, and then released it in our back yard on a willow shrub. Aug. 24, 2007 - I checked on the huge CECROPIA MOTH CATERPILLAR in our back-yard willow bush this afternoon in the rain, and it had not moved at all from yesterday evening. It was stretched out full-length underneath a leafy branch, and thus was upside-down. I took one more flash PHOTO, which should be a winner and look much more natural than the two photos taken yesterday on my carıs hood! Yesterday my friends managed to find good infoı on the cecropia moth on the Internet. Today it occurs to me that Googling ³cecropia² should also turn up the CECROPIA TREE, which I remember very well from a few tropical trips, especially in Costa Rica. This is the tree in which many naturalists get to see SLOTHS of both species, and itıs not because its leaves are particularly favoured as food by the sloths. But its open crown just makes it easy to look for the swifts on the relatively bare limbs below the characteristic leaves. Now Iım wondering why the use of the same word, cecropia, for such widely different organisms? Cheers from Jim in Wolfville --------------------- 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> ---------------------- ³The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.² - Ellen Parr ---------------------- ³...... the Earth .....belongs as much to those who come after us as to us; and we have no right, by anything that we do, or neglect to do, to involve them in unnecessary penalties, or to deprive them of benefits which are theirs by right.² - John Ruskin ----------------------
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