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--Apple-Mail-291--707744971 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed I believe Paul's "hardhack", Spiraea tomentosa, is what I call "steeplebush", a very attractive pink marshy cousin of "meadowsweet", Spiraea ?latifolia? or alba?, which has white flowers with splashes of pink and is much more abundant. Also keep checking on that big bed of turtlehead, because a beautiful butterfly that is very rare here and belongs further south raises its young mainly on turtlehead foliage -- Baltimore checkerspot butterfly. Baltimore Checkerspot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_Checkerspot - Cached - Similar The Baltimore Checkerspot (Euphydryas phaeton) is a North American butterfly of the family, Nymphalidae. It is the official state insect of the U.S. State of ... Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. -------------------- Begin forwarded message: > From: Paul MacDonald <paulrita2001@yahoo.com> > Date: August 20, 2013 9:24:49 AM ADT > To: Nature NS <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> > Subject: [NatureNS] An evening Fishing > Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > > Hi all > Yesterday was a beautiful evening and as I am feeling up > to going out I went to the river to cast a few flies. > A bed of Turtlehead _Chelone glabra_ was in bloom in the ditch > just opposite where I parked. The side of the ditch has water > oozing out > of the hillside so it stays moist all summer. The bed was maybe 50 > m long and > quite wide in spots. I've never seen a bed of Turtlehead before - > just single plants. > The pool the water forms is a good spot for tree frogs. They call > there in season. > In the Turtleheads are a few bunches of Hardhack _Spiraea tomentosa_. > A bee was feeding on their flowers. It was quite showy with a red > abdomen > but I could not see the thorax so it was either _Bombus ternarius_ > or _B. rufocinctus_. > When I went down to the water, small beds of Pickerelweed > _Pontederia cordata_ were > in bloom up and down the river. I was standing beside such a bed > and after a while a > small group of Bumble bees _Bombus impatiens_ came to feed on the > blue blooms. > There would be 8 - 10 bees in the group and as the good they were > easy to id. > After 5 minutes or so they left for another bed. > The fish were quite in good cheer so it was a delightful evening. > On the way home a woodcock fluttered across in front of the car. A > friend from the UK > calls is "rooding" - not a term I've heard in NS and I'm not sure > of the spelling - let > with his accent and all. He might say "Use a GP fly when the > woodcock are rooding!" > Enjoy the late summer > Paul > > --Apple-Mail-291--707744971 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; "> I believe Paul's "hardhack", Spiraea tomentosa, is what I call = "steeplebush", a very attractive pink marshy cousin of "meadowsweet", = Spiraea ?latifolia? or alba?, which has white flowers with splashes of = pink and is much more abundant. <div><br></div><div>Also keep = checking on that big bed of turtlehead, because a beautiful butterfly = that is very rare here and belongs further south raises its young mainly = on turtlehead foliage -- Baltimore checkerspot = butterfly.</div><div><br></div><div><ol> <li style=3D"margin: 0.0px = 0.0px 23.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px"><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"5" = color=3D"#152cc5" style=3D"font: 16.0px Arial; color: #152cc5"><a = href=3D"http://www.google.ca/url?q=3Dhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimor= e_Checkerspot&sa=3DU&ei=3DCNUTUr-wJ--n4AO9lIGICQ&ved=3D0CCQQFj= AE&usg=3DAFQjCNETgiFGoYZs7mwRcXf7PPiycu26YA"><b>Baltimore = Checkerspot</b> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a></font></li> <li = style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 15.0px"><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" color=3D"#46953a" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial; = color: = #46953a">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<b>Baltimore</b>_<b>Checkerspot</b></font><= font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" color=3D"#222222" style=3D"font: 13.0px = Arial; color: #222222"> - <a = href=3D"http://www.google.ca/url?q=3Dhttp://webcache.googleusercontent.com= /search%3Fhl%3Den-CA%26q%3Dcache:mUchAPZVnscJ:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki= /Baltimore_Checkerspot%252Bbaltimore%2Bcheckerspot%2Bbutterfly%26gbv%3D2%2= 6ct%3Dclnk&sa=3DU&ei=3DCNUTUr-wJ--n4AO9lIGICQ&ved=3D0CCUQIDAE&= amp;usg=3DAFQjCNHukfjA-EjZaqSQzDnpCdfBck-xdw"><font color=3D"#152cc5" = style=3D"color: #152cc5">Cached</font></a> - <a = href=3D"http://www.google.ca/search?hl=3Den-CA&gbv=3D2&q=3Drelated= :en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_Checkerspot+baltimore+checkerspot+butterf= ly&tbo=3D1&sa=3DX&ei=3DCNUTUr-wJ--n4AO9lIGICQ&ved=3D0CCYQH= zAE"><font color=3D"#152cc5" style=3D"color: = #152cc5">Similar</font></a></font></li> <li style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px = 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px"><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" = color=3D"#222222" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial; color: #222222">The = <b>Baltimore Checkerspot</b> (Euphydryas phaeton) is a North American = <b>butterfly</b> of the family, Nymphalidae. It is the official state = insect of the U.S. State of <b>...</b></font></li> = </ol></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville.</div><div>--------------------<br><div><br><div>Begin = forwarded message:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: = </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica">Paul MacDonald <<a = href=3D"mailto:paulrita2001@yahoo.com">paulrita2001@yahoo.com</a>></fon= t></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">August 20, 2013 9:24:49 AM = ADT</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; mar