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Located near an adult Barnacle Nudibranch, so we're thinking this may be the eggs.

Found by Frédérique from our grade 7/8 school group this morning. Bravo Frédérique!

6/3/2022 Update: With the help of @ipat and @jeffgoddard we've identified our eggs as being of the Reddish Variable Sandworm. A first for Fundy National Park!

To my knowledge, this is the first record of this species that has been confirmed by an image in the Canadian Maritimes. The only other record of this species accepted by ADIP (the Atlantic Dragonfly Inventory Project headed by Paul Brunelle) was of a sight record by Karl Dexter on June 26th, 1995 in Saint John County, New Brunswick.
For the record, this species was observed by Jim Bell, Rebecca McCluskey, and Denis Doucet. The species was also observed by Daniel Sinclair and Evan Houlahan on the previous day in the same location, but they were unable to capture it. Duplicate observations on iNaturalist are as follows: https://inaturalist.ca/observations/126749394 and https://inaturalist.ca/observations/126819592. Location accurate to within 15 m

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