[NatureNS] snake and caterpillar ID

From: AngelaJoudrey <aljoudrey@eastlink.ca>
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Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:50:13 -0300
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Thanks Andrew for your explanation=2E =


I wish had of been running with my camera! I set it aside =2C noting it=27=
s location thinking I would go back=2E=2E=2Ebut I didn=27t=2E =


Angela=2E =





On 09/08/11=2C Andrew Hebda  =3CHEBDAAJ=40gov=2Ens=2Eca=3E wrote=3A
=3E It sounds like a Green snake=2E=A0 Post-mortem changes cause a loss =
of the yellow pigmentation=2C with colour reverting to anything from a s=
oft to metallic blue=2E
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=3E =

=3E Andrew Hebda
=3E Nova Scotia Museum
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=3E =3E=3E=3E AngelaJoudrey =3Caljoudrey=40eastlink=2Eca=3E 9/8/2011 3=3A=
16 pm =3E=3E=3E
=3E =

=3E I am late in posting this=2E
=3E =

=3E On Monday ( Labour Day )while running along Chester Road=2C I stoppe=
d for a snake that had been hit and was dead on the road=2E =

=3E =

=3E I picked it up ( not very squashed ) to set it in the ditch and was =
surprised at how blue it was underneath=2E =

=3E =

=3E The snake was less than a foot long=2C slender=2C dark dark grey- bu=
t not black=2C and a beautiful blue underneath=2E
=3E =

=3E I checked the Natural History Museum website on Snakes in=A0 NS=2C b=
ut none there seemed to fit what I found=2E
=3E =

=3E Any ideas=3F =

=3E =

=3E There was also many many many many reddish brown furry caterpillars =
crossing the road=2E They had one speed=2C super fast=2E They were a few=
 cm long=2E=A0 And they were on a mission=2E To get to the other side=3F=
 To build a cocoon=3F =

=3E =

=3E Any ideas as to which ones they were=3F There were not the wooly bea=
r=2C there was definitely not any black on any of them=2E =

=3E =

=3E Thanks
=3E =

=3E Angela in Windsor
=3E =

=3E =

=3E =

=3E =

=3E =

=3E =

--
=22The significant problems of our time cannot be solved by the same lev=
el of thinking that created them=2E=22
Albert Einstein

=22When one tugs at a single thing in nature=2C he finds it attached to =
the rest of the world=2E=22
John Muir




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