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--Apple-Mail-12--938798538 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed SEPT. 3, 2012 - Miner's Marsh in Kentville: cherry trees were infested with at least 10 "webs" or "tents" of silk enclosing leaves and caterpillars of "fall webworms" (Hyphantria cunea) plus lots of caterpillar frass (excrement). We have noticed webs of the fall webworms elsewhere in King's County, like Wolfville and Grand Pre. According to Wagner's "Caterpillars of Eastern North America", fall webworms have a single generation in our area, overwinter as pupae, and have been reported to feed on more than 400 kinds of plants, mostly woody. On the exposed mud of the marsh we saw 2 lesser yellowlegs, 1 solitary sandpiper, and 3 least sandpipers. In the cattails were numerous red-winged blackbirds, which seemed to be mostly or all males of adults and immatures. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. --Apple-Mail-12--938798538 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>SEPT. = 3, 2012 - Miner's Marsh</b> in Kentville:<b> cherry trees </b>were = infested with at least 10<b> "webs" or "tents"</b> of silk enclosing = leaves and caterpillars of <b>"fall webworms"</b> (<i>Hyphantria = cunea</i>) plus lots of caterpillar frass (excrement). We have = noticed webs of the fall webworms elsewhere in King's County, like = Wolfville and Grand Pre. According to Wagner's "Caterpillars of = Eastern North America", fall webworms have a single generation in our = area, overwinter as pupae, and have been reported to feed on more than = 400 kinds of plants, mostly woody. </font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">On the = exposed mud of the marsh we saw 2<b> lesser yellowlegs</b>, 1 = <b>solitary sandpiper</b>, and 3 <b>least sandpipers</b>. In the = cattails were numerous<b> red-winged blackbirds</b>, which seemed to be = mostly or all males of adults and immatures.</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica"><br></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">Cheers = from Jim in Wolfville.</font></div> </body></html>= --Apple-Mail-12--938798538--
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