150+ thalli along 2.5 m of a weakened limb of a Mountain Ash. Cyphellae showing in some pictures. New site.
The latest tropical storm Beryl brought many spot-winged gliders to the area in the past few days. Been keeping my eyes peeled for maybe something unusual as last year I found a Striped Saddlebags. So yesterday I was at New River Beach, and their were lots of gliders around and so I thought I would drop by my workplace to have a look around. I was blessed to find what I believe to be two black saddlebags in the mix of spot-winged gliders, blue dashers and at least 6 male common green darners. Love when the storms push these rarities Northward.
Seen today collecting nesting material. Has been on the property over the past 2 weeks
Or C. castaneipes. Growing in bare soil close to Ostrya virginiana and Fagus
S. ochroleuca and S. arcisepala growing side by side. Big contrast in colour and to a lesser extent, phenology.
High abundance at this site.
Another new location for Charlotte County. I have only seen them arrive in Pocologan, which they did again this year, but was so thrilled to see this guy at the St. George Marsh Trail this day :).
Joint effort ... @becksinsects Rebecca McCluskey, @nbdragonflyguy Denis Doucet and myself saw this beauty today at Fundy National Park at the end of the FNP 2022 weekend bioblitz.
EDIT: See comments below. There was a sighting in 1995 by Karl Dexter in Saint John area. I had originally posted above but have removed the following:
1st confirmed record of Comet Darner in Atlantic Canada.
These are 1st images confirming one in Atlantic far as I know.
See also images by Rebecca and Denis:
https://inaturalist.ca/observations/126819592.
https://inaturalist.ca/observations/126950532
BBW : Bee-110711;
Video : https://youtu.be/Qt8Oy0rr4qE
Same area as the observations from 2020 (https://inaturalist.ca/observations/49633577) and 2021 (https://inaturalist.ca/observations/80978263)
Growing in open mature mixed forest dominated by Eastern Hemlock.
Same cluster of plants that I posted from this location one year ago.
Found dead, floating in the Restigouche
New for the park **
Individual #3 seen (Based on elytral markings)
@neilvinson @laura_clarke @jdee @stubirdnb @becksinsects @sinclvan6 @johnklymko @bobharding
Update, Aug 24th: This one is actually the THIRD individual I photographed that day. I will post the other two separately.
Remarkable seeing large numbers of this species that is extremely rare in NB. Heron Island may be the only extant occurrence and the plants had not been seen in 20+ years. We had little understanding of exactly where they were and no idea how many were present.
Substrate: Dead branch attached to live Ilex mucronata
Habitat: Old growth (never cut) Picea rubens, Thuja occidentalis, Pinus strobus, Betula cordifolia, Acer rubrum forest. Understorey primarily of Ilex mucronata, Viburnum lantanoides, and Rhododendron groenlandicum, Rhododendron canadense in exposed areas.
Description: Coelomycete. Stromata erumpent, pustulate-hemisphaerical-short columnar, the upper layer supporting a botryose arrangement of pycnidia, ~500mu tall, 350-550mu wide. Stroma hyaline-light yellow, basally composed of textura intricata-porrecta 2.5-6.0mu wide, becoming textura globosa-prismatica just below the pycnidial layer, cells 8-17.9x3.7-8.1mu, with the outer layer of cells becoming pale yellow. Pycnidia black, globose when young, becoming cupulate at maturity, 100-115mu tall, 195-220mu wide, with a purple brown peridium of thick-walled textura globosa-angularis-prismatica readily turning green in KOH, 4.5-11.9x3.6-6.8mu, walls 0.8-1.8mu thick. Epihymenium of pycnidia encrusted with non-cellular, yellow debris readily dissolving in KOH. Conidiophores branched, septate. Conidiogenous cells, hyaline, cylindrical, phialidic, 8.5-64.4x1.4-2.4mu. Conidia hyaline, 0-1 septate, long cylindrical, curved to sigmoid, 50.4-60.0x2.4-3.0mu, lacking appendages or mucilage.
Former names: Dermea peckiana, anamorph as Sphaeronaema stellatum and Micropera stellata
Identification Reference: Groves (1937) Three Dermateaceae occurring on Nemopanthus; Johnston et al. (2014) Recommendations on generic names competing for use in Leotiomycetes(Ascomycota)
I wonder if this is a B. vagans male, or perhaps B. sandersoni? I will upload more images soon.
about a dozen of these mussels in this location. A range of sizes. I suspect there are other populations of this species upstream in the watershed, but I have yet to find any.
A different individual than the one collected by @becksinsects in this observation at the same location:
https://inaturalist.ca/observations/82964705
I have collected this specimen and will get better photos. I am told it could be a first for NB. There were several of these white bee flies in an overgrown gravelly area.
King Rail with a larval dragonfly.
Seen at
In with a group of a green Winged Teal. Only a few previous reports in New Brunswick. Seen by several other birders once reported.
Mating pair on larval host plant, Egede's Cinquefoil (Argentina egedii), in salt marsh.
Male on left, female on right.
Near shore of flowage - on small rocky hummock (moraine?) - oak, red maple, white pine - not sure of host tree
Many American Rubyspots emerging on this day in the sweltering heat. Cool breeze blowing down river.
I am so elated that we finally have our first sighting of a male widow skimmer here in Charlotte Co. New Brunswick. WOOHOO!
It is an absolute handsome little dragon!!
On streamside rocks in small forest stream.
GPS. On old yellow birch just below Fundy slope crest