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--Apple-Mail-491-59973368 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed I did check the flowers west of the Acadia Arena, and again there were oodles of honey bees but very little else. I saw a single small bumble bee, and yesterday at Angus's site there was a single smallish bumble bee. Practically nothing else was noticed, and of course honey bees are not even close to natural insects. Angus's mention of paper wasps also deserves a personal comment. Around our house in Wolfville we frequently see individual paper wasps, but, in our back garden shed, where the roof of the entrance way above the door is ideal for their hanging nests and access even when the door is closed, the number of occupied nests is down to a single one (out of 5 or 6 or more that are still there from earlier). Also two of our porch light fixtures have mud nests of black-and- yellow mud-dauber wasps. These wasps are seldom observed, and I think there are other species of hymenopterans that actually use these old nests in the same way as the nest-builders do. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. Begin forwarded message: > From: Angus MacLean <angusmcl@ns.sympatico.ca> > Date: August 29, 2013 10:44:50 AM ADT > To: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Subject: RE: nature notes, Wolfville -- honey bees, woolly bear, > seed bug, shorebirds > > Checked on these late yesterday afternoon (n. of the library). > Scores of Honey Bees, noBumble Bees, a few paper wasps, a few blow > & flesh flies. Two Araneus spiders were busily constructing webs in > the lower reaches of this tall plant. They may be lucky but 95% of > the Honey Bees are near the top. There was a breeze so the top part > may not be suitable for spider webs. > There were several other smaller wasps (or perhaps wasp mimics). > Took a few photos but difficult to do so with the type of flower. > Did not check the knotweed stand near the Acadia arena. > Angus > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca; angusmcl@ns.sympatico.ca > From: jimwolford@eastlink.ca > Subject: nature notes, Wolfville -- honey bees, woolly bear, seed > bug, shorebirds > Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 12:09:19 -0300 > > Since Angus addressed this to everyone, I'll answer here. One > colony is just north of the Wolfville Public Library, and another > big colony is along the Rail Trail west of the Acadia Arena. Jim > in Wolfville. > > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Angus MacLean <cold_mac@hotmail.com> > Date: August 28, 2013 11:14:42 AM ADT > To: naturens <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> > Subject: RE: [NatureNS] nature notes, Wolfville -- honey bees, > woolly bear, seed bug, shorebirds > Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > > Hi Jim: > Where is the Japanes Knotweed exactly. Between Wolfville & > Greenwich or Cherry Lane east? > Thanks, Angus > > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > From: jimwolford@eastlink.ca > Subject: [NatureNS] nature notes, Wolfville -- honey bees, woolly > bear, seed bug, shorebirds > Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 17:55:13 -0300 > > > 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 saw9 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 12yellowlegs (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-491-59973368 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 did check the flowers west of the Acadia Arena, and again there were = oodles of honey bees but very little else. I saw a single small = bumble bee, and yesterday at Angus's site there was a single smallish = bumble bee. Practically nothing else was noticed, and of course = honey bees are not even close to natural = insects.<div><br></div><div>Angus's mention of paper wasps also deserves = a personal comment. Around our house in Wolfville we frequently = see individual paper wasps, but, in our back garden shed, where the roof = of the entrance way above the door is ideal for their hanging nests and = access even when the door is closed, the number of occupied nests is = down to a single one (out of 5 or 6 or more that are still there from = earlier).</div><div><br></div><div>Also two of our porch light fixtures = have mud nests of black-and-yellow mud-dauber wasps. These wasps = are seldom observed, and I think there are other species of = hymenopterans that actually use these old nests in the same way as the = nest-builders do.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville.<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">Angus MacLean <<a = href=3D"mailto:angusmcl@ns.sympatico.ca">angusmcl@ns.sympatico.ca</a>><= /font></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 29, 2013 10:44:50 AM = ADT</font></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>To: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">"James W. Wolford" <<a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</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>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>RE: 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> <span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: = rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: = normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: = normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: = none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: Calibri; font-size: = 16px; "><div dir=3D"ltr">Checked on these late yesterday afternoon (n. = of the library). Scores of Honey Bees,<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>no</strong>Bumble = Bees, a few paper wasps, a few blow & flesh flies. Two Araneus = spiders were busily constructing webs in the lower reaches of = this tall plant. They may be lucky but 95% of the Honey Bees are = near the top. There was a breeze so the top part may not be suitable for = spider webs.<br>There were several other smaller wasps (or perhaps wasp = mimics). Took a few photos but difficult to do so with the type of = flower. <br>Did not check the knotweed stand near the Acadia = arena.<br>Angus <br><div><hr id=3D"stopSpelling">To: <a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a>; <a = href=3D"mailto:angusmcl@ns.sympatico.ca">angusmcl@ns.sympatico.ca</a><br>F= rom: <a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a><br>Subje= ct: nature notes, Wolfville -- honey bees, woolly bear, seed bug, = shorebirds<br>Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 12:09:19 -0300<br><br>Since Angus = addressed this to everyone, I'll answer here. One colony is just = north of the Wolfville Public Library, and another big colony is along = the Rail Trail west of the Acadia Arena. Jim in = Wolfville.<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br = class=3D"ecxApple-interchange-newline"><blockquote><div><font = color=3D"#000000" size=3D"3" face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal = normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); = "><b>From:<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></font><font size=3D"3" = face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal = Helvetica; ">Angus MacLean <<a = href=3D"mailto:cold_mac@hotmail.com">cold_mac@hotmail.com</a>></font></= div><div><font color=3D"#000000" size=3D"3" face=3D"Helvetica" = style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, = 0, 0); "><b>Date:<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></font><font size=3D"3" = face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal = Helvetica; ">August 28, 2013 11:14:42 AM ADT</font></div><div><font = color=3D"#000000" size=3D"3" face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal = normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>To:<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></font><font size=3D"3" = face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal = Helvetica; ">naturens <<a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a>></f= ont></div><div><font color=3D"#000000" size=3D"3" face=3D"Helvetica" = style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, = 0, 0); "><b>Subject:<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></font><font size=3D"3" = face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal = Helvetica; "><b>RE: [NatureNS] nature notes, Wolfville -- honey bees, = woolly bear, seed bug, shorebirds</b></font></div><div><font = color=3D"#000000" size=3D"3" face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal = normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); = "><b>Reply-To:<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></font><font size=3D"3" = face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal = Helvetica; "><a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></font>= </div><div style=3D"min-height: 14px; "><br></div><span = class=3D"ecxApple-style-span" style=3D"widows: 2; text-transform: none; = text-indent: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font: normal normal normal = medium/normal Helvetica; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; = letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); word-spacing: 0px; "><span = class=3D"ecxApple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: Calibri; font-size: = 16px; "><div dir=3D"ltr">Hi Jim:<br>Where is the Japanes Knotweed = exactly. Between Wolfville & Greenwich or Cherry Lane = east?<br>Thanks, Angus<br> <br><div><hr = id=3D"ecxstopSpelling">To:<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a><br>Fro= m:<span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a><br>Subje= ct: [NatureNS] nature notes, Wolfville -- honey bees, woolly bear, seed = bug, shorebirds<br>Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 17:55:13 = -0300<br><br><div><div><br></div><blockquote><div><font color=3D"#000000" = size=3D"3" face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>Subject:<span = class=3D"ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></b></font><font = size=3D"3" face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b>[ValleyNature] nature notes, Wolfville -- = honey bees, woolly bear, seed bug, shorebirds</b></font></div><div = style=3D"min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div><font size=3D"3" = face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal = Helvetica; "><b>AUG. 20, 2013</b></font><font color=3D"#001ee6" size=3D"3"= face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal = Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 30, 230); "><span = class=3D"ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>- At about 1.5 hours = after high tide, along the railroad tracks of<span = class=3D"ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size=3D"3" = face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal = Helvetica; "><b>Wolfville Harbour</b></font><font color=3D"#001ee6" = size=3D"3" face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 30, 230); "><span = class=3D"ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>I saw</font><font = size=3D"3" face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b>9 greater yellowlegs, 2 lesser yellowlegs, = and 2 dowitchers<span = class=3D"ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></b></font><font = color=3D"#001ee6" size=3D"3" face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal = normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 30, 230); = ">(undoubtedly short-billed).</font></div><div style=3D"min-height: = 14px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, = 30, 230); "><br></div><div><font color=3D"#001ee6" size=3D"3" = face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal = Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 30, 230); ">Also along the RR tracks I found a = smallish<span class=3D"ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></font><font= size=3D"3" face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b>black-brown-black woolly bear caterpillar of = an isabella moth</b></font><font color=3D"#001ee6" size=3D"3" = face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal = Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 30, 230); ">?</font></div><div = style=3D"min-height: 14px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal = Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 30, 230); "><br></div><div><font size=3D"3" = face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal = Helvetica; "><b>AUG. 21, 2013 - </b></font><span = class=3D"ecxApple-style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 30, 230); = font-size: 12px; "><span class=3D"ecxApple-style-span" style=3D"color: = rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; "><font color=3D"#001ee6" size=3D"3" = face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal = Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 30, 230); ">This afternoon on our back deck we = found an adult<span = class=3D"ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></font></span><span = class=3D"ecxApple-style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: = medium; "><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal = normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b>western conifer seed = bug</b></font></span><span class=3D"ecxApple-style-span" style=3D"color: = rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; "><font color=3D"#001ee6" size=3D"3" = face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal = Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 30, 230); "></font></span><span = class=3D"ecxApple-style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: = medium; "><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal = normal normal 12px/normal 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"min-height: 14px; font: = normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 30, 230); = "><br></div><div><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: = normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b>AUG. 26, = 2013</b></font><font color=3D"#001ee6" size=3D"3" face=3D"Helvetica" = style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, = 30, 230); "><span class=3D"ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>- At = late afternoon high tide, Wolfville Harbour, there were 6<span = class=3D"ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size=3D"3" = face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal = Helvetica; "><b>dowitchers</b></font><font color=3D"#001ee6" size=3D"3" = face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal = Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 30, 230); "><span = class=3D"ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>and about 12</font><font = size=3D"3" face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b>yellowlegs</b></font><font color=3D"#001ee6" = size=3D"3" face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 30, 230); "><span = class=3D"ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>(mostly or all greaters) = roosting along the railroad tracks.</font></div><div style=3D"min-height: = 14px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, = 30, 230); "><br></div><div><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Helvetica" = style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b>AUG. 27, = 2013</b></font><font color=3D"#001ee6" size=3D"3" face=3D"Helvetica" = style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, = 30, 230); "><span class=3D"ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>- The = "test" of sorts for honey bees and other insects has started in = Wolfville, i.e.,</font><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: = normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b>Japanese knotweed is = now in bloom</b></font><font color=3D"#001ee6" size=3D"3" = face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal = Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 30, 230); "><span = class=3D"ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>along the Rail Trail in = town. Today the oodles of small white flowers were attracting good = numbers of</font><font size=3D"3" face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: = normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b><span = class=3D"ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>honey bees and a = diversity of<span = class=3D"ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></b></font><font = color=3D"#001ee6" size=3D"3" face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal = normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 30, 230); ">other = hymenopterans and dipterans (wasps and flies).</font></div><div><font = color=3D"#001ee6" size=3D"3" face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal = normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 30, 230); = "><br></font></div><div><font color=3D"#001ee6" size=3D"3" = face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal = Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 30, 230); ">Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville.</font></div><div>______________________________________________= _</div><div>Nature mailing list</div><div><a = href=3D"mailto:Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">Nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a></div><div><a = href=3D"http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidonnatu= ralists.ca" = target=3D"_blank">http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_bl= omidonnaturalists.ca</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></span></= span><br = class=3D"ecxApple-interchange-newline"></blockquote></div><br></div></div>= </span></span><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote></div><br></div></body></= html>= --Apple-Mail-491-59973368--
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