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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail-215-435817018 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Hi Jim & Bernard, On 13-Aug-07, at 6:10 PM, Jim Wolford wrote: > First, your ants attacking (no?) a large winged ant (yes) -- my > guess is that the smaller ones are just an unwinged contingent of > non-reproductives of the same species, just excited about the > departure of the winged ones. Often what can also be seen is two > sizes of winged ones, i.e. small males and much larger females -- > but I don't know how general that is across ant species and genera. Agreed: these ants are of the same species. > Your white moth might be a Satin Moth?, Leucoma salicis, in family > Lymantriidae? > I'm sure this is an arctiid. I'd lay odds that it is Spilosoma virginica (F.), the so called "Virginian Tiger Moth" whose caterpiller is known as the yellow wooly bear. Cheers! 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-215-435817018 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 Jim & = Bernard,<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 13-Aug-07, at 6:10 PM, Jim Wolford = wrote:</DIV><BR class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE = type=3D"cite">First, your ants attacking (no?) a large winged ant (yes) = -- my guess is that the smaller ones are just an unwinged contingent of = non-reproductives of the same species, just excited about the departure = of the winged ones. =A0Often what can also be seen is two sizes of = winged ones, i.e. small males and much larger females -- but I don't = know how general that is across ant species and = genera.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Agreed: these ants are of = the same species.</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type=3D"cite">Your white moth = might be a Satin Moth?, Leucoma salicis, in family Lymantriidae?<BR><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span">I'm sure this is an arctiid. I'd lay odds = that it is <I>Spilosoma virginica</I> (F.), the so called "Virginian = Tiger Moth" whose caterpiller is known as the yellow wooly = bear.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cheers!</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-215-435817018--
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