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> This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --Boundary_(ID_AntyeVd8QBJ8gdgdoi60Tg) Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Just today in the Harriet Irving Botanical Gardens there were lots of paper wasps, Polistes, foraging on flowers of several species of asters -- for both pollen and nectar?? Cheers from Jim in Wolfville ---------- From: Christopher Majka <c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca> Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:18:34 -0300 To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Subject: Re: [NatureNS] wasp ID Hi Jeannie, On 27-Sep-06, at 2:20 PM, Jeannie wrote: Hi Chris, So which is more common in Nova Scotia, Polistes fuscatus or Vespula. I'm not sure how to answer this question.=A0Polistes fuscatus and many specie= s of Vespula are common in Nova Scotia. I'm not sure how one could determine which is more common. You often see wasps around spruce trees.Which type would this be? Could be be any of of them. Also while I was picking blackberries they were everywhere (some landing on my hands),would they have been the type in the picture? I've no way of knowing. If you take a photograph or collect a specimen, the= n we have some place to start from. ;-> Cheers, Chris Jeannie Shermerhorn,Port Hawkesbury Cottage....Cape George,Cape Breton jeannies@ns.sympatico.ca=A0 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. Christopher Majka - Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History 1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada=A0 B3H 3A6 (902) 424-6435 =A0 Email <c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca> _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. --Boundary_(ID_AntyeVd8QBJ8gdgdoi60Tg) Content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>re types of wasps</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Just today in the Harriet Irving Botanical Gardens there were lots of paper= wasps, Polistes, foraging on flowers of several species of asters -- for bo= th pollen and nectar?? Cheers from Jim in Wolfville<BR> ----------<BR> <B>From: </B>Christopher Majka <c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca><BR> <B>Reply-To: </B>naturens@chebucto.ns.ca<BR> <B>Date: </B>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:18:34 -0300<BR> <B>To: </B>naturens@chebucto.ns.ca<BR> <B>Subject: </B>Re: [NatureNS] wasp ID<BR> <BR> Hi Jeannie,<BR> <BR> On 27-Sep-06, at 2:20 PM, Jeannie wrote:<BR> <BR> <BLOCKQUOTE>Hi Chris,<BR> So which is more common in Nova Scotia, Polistes fuscatus or Vespula.<BR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR> I'm not sure how to answer this question.=A0<I>Polistes fuscatus</I> and many= species of <I>Vespula</I> are common in Nova Scotia. I'm not sure how one c= ould determine which is more common.<BR> <BR> <BLOCKQUOTE>You often see wasps around spruce trees.Which type would this b= e?<BR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR> Could be be any of of them.<BR> <BR> <BLOCKQUOTE>Also while I was picking blackberries they were everywhere (som= e landing on my hands),would they have been the type in the picture?<BR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR> I've no way of knowing. If you take a photograph or collect a specimen, the= n we have some place to start from. ;-><BR> <BR> Cheers,<BR> <BR> Chris<BR> <BR> <BLOCKQUOTE>Jeannie Shermerhorn,Port Hawkesbury<BR> <BR> Cottage....Cape George,Cape Breton<BR> <BR> <BR> jeannies@ns.sympatico.ca=A0<BR> <BR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR> <BR> <BR> <FONT FACE=3D"Times">_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._.= _._._._._._._._._.</FONT> <BR> <BR> <FONT FACE=3D"Times">Christopher Majka - Nova Scotia Museum of Natural Histor= y</FONT> <BR> <BR> <FONT FACE=3D"Times">1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada=A0 B3H 3A= 6</FONT> <BR> <BR> <FONT FACE=3D"Times">(902) 424-6435 =A0 Email <c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca></= FONT> <BR> <BR> <FONT FACE=3D"Times">_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._.= _._._._._._._._._.</FONT> <BR> <BR> <BR> </BODY> </HTML> --Boundary_(ID_AntyeVd8QBJ8gdgdoi60Tg)--
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