[NatureNS] Monarch sighting

From: John and Nhung <nhungjohn@eastlink.ca>
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Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2016 05:54:52 -0300
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Last Wednesday, Aug. 3, morning, I was taking the crew of the Hawaiian
outrigger Hokule'a, on an all-too-short trip to part of the Southwest Nova
Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO-designated region covering the five
southwestern counties.

Our trip consisted of a run up Hwy. 1 from Yarmouth to the interpretive
centre at Rendezvous de la Baie (with a stop at Mavillette), thence to
Weymouth and back to Yarmouth down Hwy. 340 (with a stop at Abbe Sigogne's
last standing church at Corberrie.

Anyway, they were working on the road at Meteghan River, just north of the
bridge.  As we were waiting for "Stop" to switch to "Slow," a monarch
drifted across the highway in front of us and made its way out of sight
between a couple of houses. Only one I have seen this summer.

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From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca]
On Behalf Of Larry Bogan
Sent: August 5, 2016 11:28 AM
To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
Subject: [NatureNS] Mission Monarch - Survey for Monarchs

Look at the webpage
http://www.mission-monarch.org/mission-monarch-blitz/

Monarch Mission is a effort to survey for Monarch butterflies and provide
webspace to report your results during the summer season. The Blitz is this
coming next weekend on August 13-14 and is means to capture the state of
breeding habitat in Canada. Negative results need to be reported as well as
positive.

I surveyed several of the larger milkweed patches in Waterville yesterday
and unfortunately saw no evidence. I saw no damage to leaves indicating
larger Monarch caterpillars present. I saw no adult Monarchs flying.  I
found one new patch.

My milkweed field on the other hand is producing. We still have at least
three adult Monarchs flying around and we are still finding eggs and tiny
larvae on leaves of small milkweed plants. We have yet to see larger larvae
on our milkweed. This is discouraging because our earlier collect of eggs
are in the chrysalis stage. We also have many larger caterpillers that will
pupate in a few days. We see none of this in the wild in our field so
predators are very effective.

Lisa Proulx has reported finding caterpillars in the wild. We need to keep
looking and report findings.

So...
Please explore your nearby milkweed and look for caterpillars and report it
to Mission Monarch.

If you live in the Annapolis Valley, we have located over 50 sites with
milkweed and I have mapped it. So you can use that map to go to one or more
of these Common milkweed sites. The map is on http://valleynature.ca or
specifically http://nw.nature1st.net/index.php?id=milkweed-common-locations
I noted that some of the sites near my home have been mowed in the last week
so there will be some of these sites missing.

Cheers,
Larry

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Larry Bogan
Brooklyn Corner, Nova Scotia
<larry@bogan.ca>


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