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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail-149--864436668 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Hi Jeannie, On 4-Jul-07, at 10:06 PM, Jeannie wrote: > When I was a youngster we spent a lot of time swimming in the Bras > d'Or lakes and most of my uncles were fishermen.These beetles used > to be all over dead and rotting fish... we called them fish > bugs.Could someone give me the proper name. This is Necrophilia americana (Linnaeus), one of the species of carrion beetles found in Nova Scotia. You can find them on fish, and just about any other kind of carrion. Take a look at the following URL for a series of good photographs: http://bugguide.net/node/view/37921/bgimage Can you tell me where and when you photographed this specimen. Records of this species from Cape Breton are very useful. > Also I took a walk down to the elementary school this evening and > noticed that the trees planted in the yard were dieing.I brought > one of the leaves back and took a couple of photos,they are covered > in these tiny ( eggs?) red dots.Anyone have any idea what they are? They look to me like galls of some sort. These can be caused by a variety of insects, but often by various species of cynipid wasps. You should take a look inside one of them and see if you find a small larva. You would probably have to rear them in order to be able to determine exactly what they were. Best wishes, Chris > http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2338434020025930195iKNjPz > Jeannie Shermerhorn,Port Hawkesbury > > Cottage....Cape George,Cape Breton > > > jeannies@ns.sympatico.ca _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. _. 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-149--864436668 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 Jeannie,<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On = 4-Jul-07, at 10:06 PM, Jeannie 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; ">When I was a youngster we spent a lot of time = swimming in the Bras d'Or lakes and most of my uncles were = fishermen.These beetles used to be all over dead and rotting fish... we = called them fish bugs.Could someone give me the proper = name.<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span">This is=A0<I>Necrophilia americana</I> = (Linnaeus), one of the species of carrion beetles found in Nova Scotia. = You can find them on fish, and just about any other kind of carrion. = Take a look at the following URL for a series of good = photographs:</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A = href=3D"http://bugguide.net/node/view/37921/bgimage">http://bugguide.net/n= ode/view/37921/bgimage</A></DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Can you tell me where and = when you photographed this specimen. Records of this species from Cape = Breton are very useful.</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type=3D"cite"><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">Also I took a walk down to the elementary school = this evening and noticed that the trees planted in the yard were = dieing.I brought one of the leaves back and took a couple of photos,they = are covered in these tiny ( eggs?) red dots.Anyone have any idea what = they are?</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>They look to me like galls = of some sort. These can be caused by a variety of insects, but often by = various species of cynipid wasps. You should take a look inside one of = them and see if you find a small larva. You would probably have to rear = them in order to be able to determine exactly what they = were.</DIV><DIV><BR class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Best = wishes,</DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Chris</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE = type=3D"cite"><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A = href=3D"http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2338434020025930195iKNjPz">http= ://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2338434020025930195iKNjPz</A></DIV><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">Jeannie Shermerhorn,Port Hawkesbury</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; = ">Cottage....Cape George,Cape Breton</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; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><A = href=3D"mailto:jeannies@ns.sympatico.ca">jeannies@ns.sympatico.ca</A><SPAN= class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0</SPAN></DIV> = </BLOCKQUOTE></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"