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> 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 saw 9 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 12 yellowlegs (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.
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