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Hi All, Aug 19, 2010
The saying is "All things come to those who wait" [commonly used at
table when several kids want to be served first].
My Myxomycete book, shipped July 6 with an ETA of July 13 arrived today;
37 days overdue so it was a great relief to see it.
The putative Stemonitis fusca now has an Author; Roth.
Yt, DW, Kentville
----- Original Message -----
From: "David & Alison Webster" <dwebster@glinx.com>
To: <NatureNS@chebucto.ns.ca>
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 8:09 PM
Subject: Yard: Myxomycete, Red Admiral, deer
> Dear All, July 2, 2010
> Myxomycete-- I noticed a Slime Mold on a old hardwood board yesterday,
> shedding light brown spores, so took a few minutes this evening to examine
> it:
>
> Stalk jet black, glabrous, polished, 0.036 mm diam x 2 mm long;
>
> Sporangia 4.3 mm long (~7 mm long when stuffed with spores ?) x 0.36 mm
> diam, cylindrical [excepting sometimes gradual increase in diameter over
> up to 0.8 mm at base and gradual decrease in diameter to hemispheric tip
> over 0.4 mm], the general shape retained after spores are shed by a highly
> branched pale brown capillitium arranged around a dark axis that tapers
> gradually to the tip [sometimes becoming faint near tip & merging with
> capillitium.
>
> Spores spherical, smooth, 8.0 microns in diameter.
>
> It resembles an illustration of Stemonitis fusca that I happen to have
> at hand.
>
> Red Admiral-- I don't recall having seen one in the yard before this year
> and have seen >5 in the garden so far; on bare soil. I planted some nettle
> last year (for self not butterflies) but now see that nettle is a host for
> Red Admiral. Perhaps RA are unusually common this year (?) or perhaps the
> Nettle has drawn them in but so far I have not seen them near the Nettle.
>
> Deer-- Yesterday I noticed evidence of recent deer browse by in the yard
> (June 29th likely); Aster cordifolius (Heart-leaved Aster) methodically
> chewed back as usual (but the first time this year) and, new this year,
> new shoots of Cornus stolonifera (Red Osier Dogwood) browsed back [perhaps
> because they are unusually rank and vigorous this year].
>
> Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville
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