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Red admirals started appearing here on Wyman Road earlier this week. (May have come sooner but I saw my first one a couple of days ago.) Took a niece and a nephew to Wedgeport yesterday and drove down the Nature trail to the southern extreme of Wedge Point. A monarch drifted out of the roadside bush; my first this year. Noticed a lot of really small bumblebees in the snowberry bushes near the house. Have never seen such small ones. There were the a few smallish (but bigger) ones with reddish abdomens, as well. Sorry; don't know my bumblebee species! -----Original Message----- From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] On Behalf Of Larry Bogan Sent: July 18, 2019 11:19 AM To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Subject: [NatureNS] Mission Monarch 2019 Yesterday, I walked a zigzag pattern in our field of Common milkweed and scared up at least 12 individual adult Monarchs. We have had a Monarch here since June 8 so that it is possible that some emerged from the field but I doubt it. Perhaps there has been another influx during the hot breezes from the South. In any event the Monarchs are here and have been seen widely in Nova Scotia. Mission Monarch is ongoing in 2019 and during the week from July 27th through August 4th it is the 'International' Monarch Monitoring Blitz. Monarchs are laying eggs and the larvae will be eating away at the milkweed in the coming month and we would like to know how extensive it is this year. Please examine your local milkweed patches and count the eggs, larvae and adults. Instructions and reporting pages are available at http://www.mission-monarch.org. Alison and I have been surveying our field and have brought in about 40 eggs so far. Two of those were earlier than the others and went into the chrysalis stage yesterday. The Common milkweed is at its peak flowing here in the Annapolis Valley and attracting huge numbers of insects (mostly honey bees). There is a fantastic sweet smell permeating the area from the flowers. There are other butterflies here also and please report any you see to http://www.e-butterfly.org Our field has Monarchs, Red Admiral, White Admiral, European Skipper, Common Ringlet, Canadian Tiger Swallowtail, Silvery Blue, and a comma. Cheers, Larry -- Larry Bogan <larry@bogan.ca> Brooklyn Corner, Nova Scotia
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