聖勞倫斯河畔的百合
一群蒙特利爾的文學愛好者共同創作和編輯的百人博客。
Since the girl working at Bathurst's Information Centre told us that there is a Daily Point Reserve in the Charleur Bay area with a lot of rare Maritime ringlet butterflies, which are only seen in this reserve in Canada. In my mind, I was imagining that I could see plenty of big blue or colourful butterflies flying on the flowers.
However, when we got to the reserve, there was no a lot of people inside reserve. We only saw an old man walking in the reserve during our visit.
There was some small and dark yellow butterflies flying in the bushes. Are these butterflies the rare butterfly?
My husband said at least we saw some. Since the butterfly is really small, we could not take any pictures.
The most funny things was that we were chased by so many mosquitos while we are walking along the costal trail inside the reserve. We run and rushed into our cars without any stops.
Even though we sprayed the mosquito spray on our bodies and heads. But it didn't work!
It was really unforgettable experience for three of us. We all had a big laugh when we finally got into the car.
Today, when I sat here, writing this diary. I found some interest stories about this species of butterflies and some beatiful pictures. One of picture I posted above was taken by Discovery Channel. I even found out there was a Frenchman came to the Daily Point Reserve and spent his whole day, trying to photograph those ringlet butterflies. Unfortunately, the pictures in his blog is not working, and I could see the picture of butterflies.
Why there are so many people are interested in this species?
Maritime ringlet butterfly is an endangered species, which means an organism in danger of disappearing from the face of the earth if its situation is not improved. The following is quoted from the website of http://www.elements.nb.ca/Theme/endangeredspecies/butterfly/mringlet.htm
"This small (wing span about 3.5 cm) tan colored butterfly only exist in salt marsh in eastern Canada. However, the Maritime Ringlet, in contrast, is far from widespread. This butterfly is known from only 4 sites near the Chaleur Bay on the east coast of Canada.
The global range of this species covers an area of less than two square kilometers."
There is no wonder why some people came to the Daily Point Reserve and observe those butterflies.
