Date: 02/16/2005

Number: 1

First Worm!

With the unusually warm weather we’ve had I posted my first sighting of a Robin yesterday 2/16. It was the earliest sighting over a many year period. I realize that many living in a country setting observe Robins all through the Winter. But, for urbanites and sub-urbanites living in developments like myself seeing your first Robin so close to Spring is refreshing.

Yet today 2/16, with temps in the 50's F yesterday and 42 F as was this morning at 05:00 AM a first of all firsts happened as I was out collecting some of our pet dogs droppings that surfaced through the melting snow.

As I was searching through the snow pack a familiar glistening figure was partially sticking out. As not to harm, I carefully removed the surrounding snow with my garden trowel as would an archeologist on an important dig.

Low and behold it was a pink, as I call them wax-worm. Not a redworm, or larger earth worm, but a pink wax-worm about 4" long. As I held it in the palm of my hand th

Minoa, NY

Latitude: 43.1 Longitude: -76

Observed by: James R.
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