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Dec. 20, 2006 - Inside our house in Wolfville again I found a very slow-moving LEAF-FOOTED BUG (COREIDAE), very probably a WESTERN CONIFER SEED BUG (Leptoglossus occidentalis) -- by dumb luck there is a photo match in my book, ³Insects -- Their Natural History and Diversity² (2006) by Stephen A. Marshall, Firefly Books. I took a single flash photo of the bug, and I also collected it. [Chris, should I save it for the N.S. Museum?] In the book, the caption for the photo of the WESTERN CONIFER SEED BUG says: ³Our most conspicuous common coreids are large (20 mm), slow-moving bugs with flattened and expanded hind legs. These big bugs are Western Conifer Seed Bugs (Leptoglossus occidentalis), a species of leaf-footed bug that didn¹t show up in eastern North America until about 1980. L. occidentalis has long been an abundant pest of conifer seeds in the west. Leptoglossus bugs are now among the most common Coreidae in the northeast, and can often be seen on walls and in buildings in late fall as they aggregate for the winter.² One of my Wolfville neighbors, John Martens, noticed quite a few of these Western Conifer Seed Bugs around his house this autumn. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville, 542-9204 --------------------- Jim (James W.) Wolford 91 Wickwire Avenue Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada B4P 1W3 phone (902)542-9204 (home) fax (902)585-1059 (Acadia Univ. Biology Dept.) e-mail <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> ---------------------- ³...... the Earth .....belongs as much to those who come after us as to us; and we have no right, by anything that we do, or neglect to do, to involve them in unnecessary penalties, or to deprive them of benefits which are theirs by right.² - John Ruskin ----------------------
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