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Carter's Beach is near Port Mouton, about 20 minutes past Liverpool. On certain days, a few hundred sand dollars wash up or you can wade in a bit and pick them up.I noticed this year the water isn't coming up on the beach as far and was surprised to see live many sand dollars at the tide line. Additionally, a few years ago, if you waded out up to your shoulders, you could see the live sand dollar colony. This time, one only needed to go mid calf to see it. I got lots of pictures and it was an amazing sight to see thousands of them. I wonder if it is now so accessible, how long it might survive. The water seems to stay cold so not too many wanted to go in up to their necks to see them. Even at low tide other years, you might see the occasional live one, but nothing like this. Wondering if anyone knew what happened with the proposed fish plant. I remember signing a petition against it as I figured it would needlessly damage or destroy what appears to be very pristine water and beach. Anyone know? Thx JOyce ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann Morrison" <jastatu@gmail.com> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 11:45 PM Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Flying ants > Oh yeah I remember Flying Ant day in the Sixties... Yuck! A few more in > the seventies but nothing like the sixties. > I know carpenter ants have large winged ants in their group that go out in > search of a new home. > A couple of summers ago there was an amazing 'hatching' of a flying insect > that turned the surface of the Arm a reddish brown. (That's different from > the 'normal' colours of the Arm. Ha!) > Ann > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 2010-08-13, at 9:32 PM, nhungjohn <nhungjohn@eastlink.ca> wrote: > >> Sounds like a joke, to me. >> >> I remember irruptions of flying ants on hot August days in the '50's and >> '60's, and think flying reproductives are how ant species establish new >> colonies >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elizabeth Doull" >> <edoull@ns.sympatico.ca> >> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> >> Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 8:54 PM >> Subject: [NatureNS] Flying ants >> >> >>> Read the comments in Chronicle Herald in Internet below. It was in >>> response >>> of flying ants in Halifax. Any truth in it? >>> >>> "Flying ants are not natural species to Nova Scotia. They were >>> introduced by >>> local sport ant hunters who determined the native, ground-walking Nova >>> Scotia ants were too easy to catch in the 1970s. They have been known to >>> breed with the Northern wild ant, thus creating a hybrid-type that >>> appears >>> unafraid of humans and can act unpredictably" >>
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