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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail-83--1057704039 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Hi Dave, On 2-Jul-07, at 4:51 PM, David & Alison Webster wrote: > A minor correction: the larva resemble Sweet Fern not Sweet Gale. > > The leaf of Sweet Gale is leathery, nearly entire in basal 3/4 > and may curl a bit but does not wither. On the other hand, the leaf > of Sweet Fern (Comptonia peregrina) is relatively thin, deeply and > pinnately lobed and becomes light brown, flattened laterally and > slightly curled, much like the larva of N. rubrifrontaria. > > I reared Nemoria rubrifrontaria Pack. (#A523) from a larva > found Aug 20, 2000. My notes include "Looked like a dried narrow > Sweet Fern leaf." Ferguson (1953) says, "The remarkable larva... is > scarcely distinguishable from a brown, withered sweet fern leaf." Yes indeed! I was reading the account in Ferguson and he mentions that he once bred it from Sweet Gale (and of course commonly on Sweet Fern) and (apparently) overcome by sweetness, my brain reversed the two. :-> Thanks for the clarification, 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-83--1057704039 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 Dave,<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On = 2-Jul-07, at 4:51 PM, David & Alison Webster wrote:</DIV><BR = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type=3D"cite"><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 =A0</SPAN>A = minor correction: the larva resemble Sweet Fern not Sweet = Gale.</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0=A0 = </SPAN>The leaf of Sweet Gale is leathery, nearly entire in basal 3/4 = and may curl a bit but does not wither. On the other hand, the leaf of = Sweet Fern (Comptonia peregrina) is relatively thin, deeply and = pinnately lobed and becomes light brown, flattened laterally and = slightly curled, much like the larva of N. rubrifrontaria.</DIV><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0=A0 </SPAN>I reared<SPAN = class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 </SPAN>Nemoria rubrifrontaria Pack. = (#A523) from a larva found Aug 20, 2000. My notes include "Looked like a = dried narrow Sweet Fern leaf."=A0Ferguson (1953) says, "The remarkable = larva... is scarcely distinguishable from a brown, withered sweet fern = leaf."</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Yes indeed! I was reading = the account in Ferguson and he mentions that he once bred it from Sweet = Gale (and of course commonly on Sweet Fern) and (apparently) overcome by = sweetness, my brain reversed the two. :-></DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks for the = clarification,</DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Chris</DIV><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-83--1057704039--
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