[NatureNS] Silver Plated Beetle

From: "Rick Ballard" <RBallard@NL.Rogers.Com>
To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 22:46:18 -0230
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Thanks for your ID. It was actually  found within a few feet of some Alder trees. Calligrapha is 
certainly an apt name. 

> Hi Rick, 
> On 1-Aug-07, at 7:25 PM, Rick Ballard wrote: 
> 
> I found this interesting beetle at my cottage at Indian Harbour Lake, Guysborough County, 
> NS. 
> 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/ideaphore/977783053/ 
> 
> It looks like some kind of Leaf Beetle ( Family CHRYSOMELIDAE ), but I haven't been able 
> to find it in any books or on the web. 
> 
> This is, indeed, in the Chrysomelidae. It is Calligrapha confluens Schaeffer, one of the 
> mostabundant of this diverse genus of beetles in Nova Scotia. It is associated with alder. Earlier 
> this season Bernard Burke posted a photograph of this same species.
> ...

-- 
Rick Ballard
Torbay, Newfoundland, Canada
http://www.ideaphore.com

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