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website<BR>___________________________________________________ --Apple-Mail-54-155343364 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Hi Hans, On 27-May-07, at 7:44 PM, Hans Toom wrote: > Of alternate interest this morning at our place in Portuguese Cove > was a green moth of a colour I cannot recall seeing before. I > posted one image, the last one in this set. I have made no colour > changes to this critter at all. What you see is what it looked like. This is a noctuid in the genus Feralia. I think this is Feralia jocosa Gn. which feeds on red and black spruce. http://www.monctonnaturalistsclub.org/images/ 10005.THE_JOKER_FERALIA_JOCOSA..1.jpg Although Feralia comstocki Grt., apparently found on hemlock is also a possibility: http://www.cbif.gc.ca/spp_pages/noctuoidea/jpgs/110008.jpg Individuals of both species seem to be quite variable and I'm not certain what characters differentiate them. The third species found in Nova Scotia, Feralia major Sm., looks somewhat different and is rare. They are clearly patterned so as to blend into patterns of moss and lichens on the bark of trees. Best wishes! Chris _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. _. Christopher Majka - Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History 1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3A6 (902) 424-6435 Email <c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca> _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. _. --Apple-Mail-54-155343364 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 <HTML><BODY style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; = -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Hans,<DIV><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span"><BR><DIV><DIV>On 27-May-07, at 7:44 PM, Hans = Toom wrote:</DIV><BR class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE = type=3D"cite"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: = separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = Times New Roman; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: = normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: = normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; = text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; = orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; = "><DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial" size=3D"2"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">Of alternate interest = this morning at our place in Portuguese Cove was a green moth of a = colour I cannot recall seeing before.=A0 I posted one image, the last = one in this set.=A0 I have made no colour changes to this critter at = all.=A0 What you see is what it looked = like.</SPAN></FONT></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>This is a noctuid in the genus = <I>Feralia</I>. I think this is=A0F<I>eralia jocosa</I> Gn. which feeds = on red and black spruce.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A = href=3D"http://www.monctonnaturalistsclub.org/images/10005.THE_JOKER_FERAL= IA_JOCOSA..1.jpg">http://www.monctonnaturalistsclub.org/images/10005.THE_J= OKER_FERALIA_JOCOSA..1.jpg</A></DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span">Although=A0<I>Feralia comstocki</I> Grt., = apparently found on hemlock is also a possibility:</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A = href=3D"http://www.cbif.gc.ca/spp_pages/noctuoidea/jpgs/110008.jpg">http:/= /www.cbif.gc.ca/spp_pages/noctuoidea/jpgs/110008.jpg</A></DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span">Individuals of both species seem to be quite = variable and I'm not certain what characters differentiate them. The = third species found in Nova Scotia,=A0<I>Feralia major</I> Sm., looks = somewhat different and is rare.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>They are clearly patterned = so as to blend into patterns of moss and lichens on the bark of = trees.</DIV><DIV><BR class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Best = wishes!</DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Chris=A0<BR><DIV> <P = style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face=3D"Times" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px = Times">_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._= ._._._.</FONT></P> <P style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT = face=3D"Times" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Times">Christopher Majka = - Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History</FONT></P> <P style=3D"margin: = 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face=3D"Times" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Times">1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada<SPAN = class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 </SPAN>B3H 3A6</FONT></P> <P = style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face=3D"Times" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Times">(902) 424-6435 <SPAN = class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 </SPAN>Email <<A = href=3D"mailto:c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca">c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca</A>></F= ONT></P> <P style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face=3D"Times"= size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Times">_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._= ._._._.</FONT></P> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>= --Apple-Mail-54-155343364--
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