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Jim sorry they are centimetres - I was using my wifes sewing tape and got
confused. The cocoon was only about 8 cm off the ground on a bramble under
a green ash.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>
To: "NatureNS" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 10:39 AM
Subject: FW: [NatureNS] Mother of All Cocoons
> Jamie et al., in further thinking about Jamie's large cocoon, I have my
> doubts about it possibly being a cecropia silk moth, just because it was
> found so close to the ground and doesn't look quite right. (And the
> dimensions given should be in centimetres, not millimetres.)
>
> I wonder if it could belong to one of the woolly bear caterpillars in the
> tiger moth family, perhaps the salt-marsh caterpillar, which becomes the
> acrea moth, Estigmene acrea? These pupate close to the ground in open
> areas, and the larval hairs are somehow incorporated into the hairy makeup
> of the cocoon. Other members of the tiger moth family, Arctiidae, would
> be
> possibilities also.
>
> P.S. The six of us who braved the elements to walk to Cape Split on May 19
> found another type of large, dark-brown, very hairy woolly-bear
> caterpillar
> crawling across the path. From Wagner's new caterpillar field guide, it
> might be the extremely variable (colour-wise) YELLOW BEAR or VIRGINIAN
> TIGER
> MOTH, Spilosoma virginica? Wagner shows 4 variants, and ours looked like
> the lower left photo shown.
>
> Cheers from Jim in Wolfville
> ----------
> From: Jamie Simpson <jsimpson@win.eastlink.ca>
> Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
> Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 13:12:11 -0300
> To: naturens <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
> Subject: [NatureNS] Mother of All Cocoons
>
> Still playing with web photos, let me know if this doesn't work. Looking
> for an ID on this humungous cocoon.
>
> http://picasaweb.google.com/desolatechair/Nature
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> Nature
> Aug 23, 2005
> by james
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> Message from james:
> Can anyone identify this humungous cocoon? It's about 10mm long, 4mm
> thick, weighs a few ounces, dark brownish, looks like a hairball and I
> think
> still occupied, found on a low hanging blackberry bramble.
>
> Jamie
> If you are having problems viewing this email, copy and paste the
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