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Chris had a slight typo in the carrion beetle's name -- it should be Necrophila americana -- AND this is the same kind of carrion beetle that Pat and I saw on a trail at Noggins Farm in Greenwich about a month ago? I read in one of my books that this species specializes on carcasses that are quite old and dried out, I believe. I wasn't able to view the red dots on the leaf that Jeannie photographed. What kind of trees were they? If these dots were raised up into pimple-like growths, they are probably galls caused by gall mites, which with a strong hand lens do not look at all like mites -- the body in elongate with only 2 pairs of short legs near the front. If the spots are flat and circular, they might be spangle galls caused by a gall midge perhaps? Cheers from Jim in Wolfville ---------- From: Jeannie <jeannies@ns.sympatico.ca> Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:32:29 -0300 To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Beetle ID Hi Chris, I photographed it on 2007/7/3.It was dead in my driveway, in Port Hawkesbury. Jeannie Shermerhorn,Port Hawkesbury Cottage....Cape George,Cape Breton jeannies@ns.sympatico.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: <c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 11:06 PM Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Beetle ID > 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> > _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. > _. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.0/886 - Release Date: 04/07/2007 1:40 PM
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