First documented observation of this species in our region (Eastern Canada)
Specimen ID was recently confirmed by another expert and is being prepared for herbarium deposition.
Location: Pubnico, NS
(GPS location obscured)
Habitat: Red Maple, in an old RM swamp
Some of the key characteristics contributing to this ID:
I'm not a regular inaturalist user and am just getting around to uploading some things from last field season (2021). Wanted to post this one since it's relatively more important.
Attracted to lights in old field - garden habitat surrounded by mature mixed forest along coast of Northumberland Strait.
Attracted to light in old field - garden - mixed woods habitat along coast of Northumberland Strait.
Attracted to light in old field - garden - mixed forest habitat along coast of Northumberland Strait.
Attracted to lights in old field - garden - mixed woods habitat along coast of Northumberland Strait.
Attracted to light in old field - garden - mixed woods habitat along coast of Northumberland Strait (New Brunswick).
I may not have enough of a patch to confirm/deny ID, but all of the patches around seemed to show the "c-shaped areoles" typical of R. lecanorinum. Whether it is that or R. geographicum, either way, it's new to me :)
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Attracted to light in old field - garden - mixed woods habitat along coast of Northumberland Strait.
Attracted to light in old field - garden - mixed woods habitat along coast of Northumberland Strait.
Xanthorhoe packardata. Photographed along the Detour Lake Mine Road, Cochrane District, Ontario on 31 July 2020.
Attracted to light in old field - garden - mixed woods habitat along coast of Northumberland Strait.
Retrouvé marchant sur la neige / Found walking on the snow
Comparer avec / Compare with:
https://bugguide.net/node/view/374723/bgpage
Still seeing plenty of these on warmer days. They seem to be out as adults between mid-April and mid-June.
growing atop rotting log in wet mature mixed forest; I am a complete bryophyte neophyte but seems to match the form and fruiting bodies of images of P, pulcherrimum that I found in a nature blog from New York state. Comments or confirmation greatly appreciated.
Cleaning its face & hindquarters. Two videos of these ministrations: https://youtu.be/HO5o_ehiwfA https://youtu.be/2yaHH2yuAOY
Leucistic American Robin - part of a pair in my yard for the past week.