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Wihbey, Editor: menature@maine.maine.edu Vol. 4, nos. 35, Tuesday, August 31, 1999
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Report format = Day, date, [time]. Location (Maine Atlas Map number) Report text. Initials of correspondent.
Friday, August 27. Holden/Orrington (Map 23) At Fields Pond Nature Center, the following were found during a cursory inventory on Insect Interest Day.
Friday, August 27. Holden/Orrington (Map 23)
Also seen at Fields Pond Nature Center, during Insect Interest Day:
In plants in unmowed field: Ants (under turned-over stumps); carrion
beetle or ground beetle - just molted (under turned-over boardwalk); daddy
long-legs; earth worms (uner turned-over stump); flea beetle; grasshoppers; Japanese
beetles; robber flies; orb-weaving spiders; paper wasps (under turned-over boardwalk);
pill bugs (under turned-over stump); plant hoppers; rove beetle; spittle bug;
stink bug; tiger beetle; wooly-bear caterpillars.
Seen on flower in Butterfly Garden: Ambush bug; white
admiral butterfly.
Seen in artifical vernal pool (frog pond): bull frogs, whirligig
beetles. F.W.
Monday, August 30. Holden (Map 23) On the Fields Pond Road, 1/2 mile north of the Fields Pond Nature Center, there was a road-killed weasel from Aug. 24-29. I was unableto determine whether it was a short-tailed or long-tailed weasel. J.K.M.