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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_E2i8KSkxcCWSyr/+bVAOjg) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Ken McKenna Box 218 Stellarton NS B0K 1S0 902 752-7644 Hi all Early last winter, I was scouting for the Springville CBC near abandoned property between Maritime Steel, the Railway track and Ballentynes Fuel in New Glasgow when I came across a seed pod I did not recognize. I took it to our Pictou Co. Naturalist's club meeting and someone from Ontario recognized it as milkweed seed pod. On Sat., Aug. 6, I went to check the area late in the evening after a so so day of butterfly attlassing in the Kenzieville priority square. The abandoned area was full of tall Queen Ann's Lace and other wildflowers and to my astonishment 400-500 milkweed plants. In the second grouping of plants I looked at, I found a monarch caterpillar. I did a quick search of a good number of the other plants, but not another larvae was observed. I don't know if it is common to find only one caterpillar. Surely more eggs were deposited than that. I will check every now and then check for progress but at least a monarch can be recorded in the New Glasgow square away from usual coastline locations that seem to harbour more monarchs. Will this caterpillar have time to reach adulthood to start a leg of the journey back to Mexico? cheers Ken --Boundary_(ID_E2i8KSkxcCWSyr/+bVAOjg) Content-type: text/html; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.19088"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Ken McKenna<BR>Box 218 Stellarton NS<BR>B0K 1S0<BR>902 752-7644<BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hi all</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Early last winter, I was scouting for the Springville CBC near abandoned property between Maritime Steel, the Railway track and Ballentynes Fuel in New Glasgow when I </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>came across a seed pod I did not recognize. I took it to our Pictou Co. Naturalist's club meeting and someone from Ontario recognized it as milkweed seed pod. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>On Sat., Aug. 6, I went to check the area late in the evening after a so so day of butterfly attlassing in the Kenzieville priority square. The abandoned area was full of tall Queen Ann's Lace and other wildflowers and to my astonishment 400-500 milkweed plants. In the second grouping of plants I looked at, I found a monarch</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>caterpillar. I did a quick search of a good number of the other plants, but not another larvae was observed. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I don't know if it is common to find only one caterpillar. Surely more eggs were deposited than that. I will check every now and then check for progress but at least a monarch can be recorded in the New Glasgow square away from usual coastline locations that seem to harbour more monarchs. Will this caterpillar have time to reach adulthood to start a leg of the journey back to Mexico? </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>cheers</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Ken</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML> --Boundary_(ID_E2i8KSkxcCWSyr/+bVAOjg)--
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