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Kerry Wood Nature Centre 6300 45 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, Canada

Insect Focus Group

Kerry Wood Nature Centre

Your Host:  Don Wales Topic:  Lepidoptera and miscellaneous orders. Lepidoptera - moths, butterflies. This is one of the most well known and easily recognizable orders of insects. The order Lepidoptera means 'scaly wings'. They have four large scale-covered wings that bear distinctive markings, and larvae that are caterpillars.  

Annual General Meeting

Kerry Wood Nature Centre 6300 45 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, Canada

Come join us and hear our reports, achievements, up-coming events and speakers. We also need Board Members and a new Secretary for the New Year. Think about joining the Board it is very rewarding. Get involved!

Board Meeting

Kerry Wood Nature Centre 6300 45 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, Canada

Insect Focus Group

Kerry Wood Nature Centre 6300 45 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, Canada

Your Host:  Don Wales Topic:  Diptera order Diptera – true flies. The Diptera include flies, mosquitos, gnats, midges, and no-see-ums. There are about 120,000 known species of true flies alive today. Dipterans typically have sucking mouth-parts, and may feed on plant juices or on decaying organic matter. A number of dipterans feed on blood, and some […]

Speaker of the Month

Kerry Wood Nature Centre 6300 45 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, Canada

RDRN General Meeting-Announcements/Refreshments - 7:30 p.m. Speaker: Dr. Fabien Mavrot – 8:00 p.m. Topic: Monitoring Health in a Declining Muskox Population: Challenges and Solutions in the Remote Arctic. Dr. Mavrot is a Swiss Veterinarian with a strong interest in wildlife and epidemiology. He wrote his Veterinary thesis on infectious keratoconjunctivitis in Alpine Ibex and Chamois at […]

Board Meeting

Kerry Wood Nature Centre 6300 45 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, Canada

Insect Focus Group

Kerry Wood Nature Centre 6300 45 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, Canada

Your Host:  Don Wales Topic:  Diptera order and a healthy review of the Coleoptera order Diptera – true flies. The Diptera include flies, mosquitos, gnats, midges, and no-see-ums. There are about 120,000 known species of true flies alive today. Dipterans typically have sucking mouth-parts, and may feed on plant juices or on decaying organic matter. A number of dipterans […]

Speaker of the Month – Susanne Maidment

Kerry Wood Nature Centre 6300 45 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, Canada

RDRN General Meeting-Announcements/Refreshments – 7:30 p.m. Speaker: Susanne Maidment – 8:00 p.m. Topic: Bird Banding: Owls to Hummingbirds Susanne Maidment will be sharing an evening with us on the Natural History of Hummingbirds and how to band them. Since 2006 Susanne has been banding hummingbirds. She states: "Wow, to hold a wild, healthy hummingbird is an […]

Mailing Address
Box 785
Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
T4N 5H2

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Email Address
rdrn.nature@gmail.com

Phone Number
1-403-347-8200

The Red Deer River Naturalists acknowledges the traditional territory north of the Red Deer River of Treaty Six of the Blackfoot, Cree, Dene, Nakota Sioux (sue), and Saulteaux (sawl-toh) Peoples, the traditional territory south of the Red Deer River of Treaty Seven of the Niitsitapi (nee-itsee-TAH-peh) (Blackfoot), Siksika (seeg-see-kah), Piikani (pee-kah-nee), Kainai (g-ai-nah), Tsuu T’ina (soot-tenna), Stoney Nakota Peoples and the Battle River Territory District Three Métis Nation of Alberta.
We hope to serve and protect the traditional lands and waters with respect and commitment. Together, we can be a voice for nature.