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--Apple-Mail-454--102244732 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > Subject: [ValleyNature] nature notes, Wolfville -- honey bees, > woolly bear, seed bug, shorebirds > > AUG. 20, 2013 - At about 1.5 hours after high tide, along the > railroad tracks of Wolfville Harbour I saw 9 greater yellowlegs, 2 > lesser yellowlegs, and 2 dowitchers (undoubtedly short-billed). > > Also along the RR tracks I found a smallish black-brown-black > woolly bear caterpillar of an isabella moth? > > AUG. 21, 2013 - This afternoon on our back deck we found an adult > western conifer seed bug (Leptoglossus occidentalis, in family > Coreidae, leaf-footed bugs). (A large bug with conspicuous diamond- > shaped "leaf" on each hind leg.) > > AUG. 26, 2013 - At late afternoon high tide, Wolfville Harbour, > there were 6 dowitchers and about 12 yellowlegs (mostly or all > greaters) roosting along the railroad tracks. > > AUG. 27, 2013 - The "test" of sorts for honey bees and other > insects has started in Wolfville, i.e., Japanese knotweed is now in > bloom along the Rail Trail in town. Today the oodles of small > white flowers were attracting good numbers of honey bees and a > diversity of other hymenopterans and dipterans (wasps and flies). > > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. > _______________________________________________ > Nature mailing list > Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca > http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/ > nature_blomidonnaturalists.ca --Apple-Mail-454--102244732 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><div><br></div><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>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[ValleyNature] nature notes, = Wolfville -- honey bees, woolly bear, seed bug, = shorebirds</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; 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"><b>AUG. 20, = 2013</b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#001ee6" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #001ee6"> - At about 1.5 hours = after high tide, along the railroad tracks of </font><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica"><b>Wolfville Harbour</b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#001ee6" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #001ee6"> I saw </font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica"><b>9 greater yellowlegs, 2 lesser yellowlegs, and 2 = dowitchers </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#001ee6" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #001ee6">(undoubtedly short-billed).</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top:= 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: = normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 30, 230); = 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" color=3D"#001ee6" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica; color: #001ee6">Also along the RR tracks I found a smallish = </font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica"><b>black-brown-black woolly bear caterpillar of an isabella = moth</b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#001ee6" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #001ee6">?</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = color: rgb(0, 30, 230); 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"><b>AUG. 21, 2013 - </b></font><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 30, 230); font-size: = 12px; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); = font-size: medium; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#001ee6"= style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #001ee6">This afternoon on our = back deck we found an adult </font></span><span class=3D"Apple-style-span"= style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica"><b>western conifer seed bug</b></font></span><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: = medium; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#001ee6" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #001ee6"> </font></span><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: = medium; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica">(<i>Leptoglossus occidentalis</i>, in family Coreidae, = leaf-footed bugs). (A large bug with conspicuous diamond-shaped = "leaf" on each hind leg.)</font></span></span></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = color: rgb(0, 30, 230); 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"><b>AUG. 26, 2013</b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#001ee6" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #001ee6"> - At late afternoon high tide, Wolfville Harbour, there were 6 = </font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica"><b>dowitchers</b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#001ee6" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #001ee6"> and = about 12 </font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica"><b>yellowlegs</b></font><font face=3D"Helveti