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--Apple-Mail-10--971765526 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed Hi Jim, On 22-Aug-07, at 8:54 AM, Jim Wolford wrote: > At one point on the trail I HEARD a singing EASTERN WOOD PEWEE, and it > called loudly directly above us several times; this is notable =20 > because I > haven=92t heard a pewee call in perhaps ten or more years!! Maybe my > expensive hearing aids are helping me after all! Yesterday morning I started the day in Woodville Mills, PEI where all =20= weekend I'd been hearing a Wood Pewee calling. There has been a pair =20 nesting at my brother- and sister-in-law's for as long as I can =20 remember and I'm intrigued at how late into the season the males keep =20= vocalizing. Enroute back to Halifax I spent some time collecting at =20 Salt Springs park in NS and was interested to hear a Wood Peewee =20 calling there as well. There are only scattered Viburnum opulus (highbush cranberry) bushes =20 in the park, but they are very heavily defoliated by the introduced =20 viburnum leaf beetle (Pyrrhalta viburni). Almost every leaf has been =20 substantially chewed or skeletonized and there are adult beetles =20 mating all over the foliage. Nature NS readers may be interested in a =20= recent paper which we have published in the Proceedings of the =20 Entomological Society of Washington which is part of our series on =20 introduced leaf beetles of the Maritime Provinces: Majka, C.G. and LeSage, L. 2007. Introduced leaf beetles of the =20 Maritime Provinces, 3: the Viburnum leaf beetle Pyrrhalta viburni =20 (Paykull) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Proceedings of the =20 Entomological Society of Washington, 109(2): 454=96462. The earliest records of this European species in North America are =20 from specimens collected in 1924 in Annapolis Royal, NS. In the paper =20= we propose two possible historical scenarios in relation to its =20 presence there: a) that it might have been introduced very early in =20 Nova Scotia's history after the establishment of Annapolis Royal in =20 1605, perhaps between 1710 to 1749 when the town was the capital of =20 Nova Scotia and there was considerable trans-Atlantic traffic =20 destined there; or b) via the medium of the Annapolis Royal Nurseries =20= (1885 to ~ 1945) which in its time was the largest nursery in the =20 Atlantic Provinces, and imported a variety of exotic species of =20 Viburnum. Those who are interested can find an on-line copy of the paper at: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/NHR/PDF/Pyrrhalta_viburni.pdf Best wishes! Chris _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._.=20= _. 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> _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._.=20= _. --Apple-Mail-10--971765526 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=WINDOWS-1252 <HTML><BODY style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; = -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Jim,<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On = 22-Aug-07, at 8:54 AM, Jim Wolford 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; ">At one point on the trail I HEARD a singing EASTERN = WOOD PEWEE, and it</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">called loudly directly = above us several times; this is notable because I</DIV><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">haven=92t heard a pewee call in perhaps ten or more = years!!<SPAN class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 </SPAN>Maybe = my</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">expensive hearing aids are helping me after = all!</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Yesterday morning I started the = day in Woodville Mills, PEI where all weekend I'd been hearing a Wood = Pewee calling. There has been a pair nesting at my brother- and = sister-in-law's for as long as I can remember and I'm=A0intrigued at how = late into the season the males keep vocalizing. Enroute back to Halifax = I spent some time collecting at Salt Springs park in NS and was = interested to hear a Wood Peewee calling there as well.</DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span">There are only scattered <I>Viburnum = opulus</I> (highbush cranberry) bushes in the park, but they are very = heavily defoliated by the introduced viburnum leaf beetle (<I>Pyrrhalta = viburni</I>). Almost every leaf has been substantially chewed or = skeletonized and there are adult beetles mating all over the foliage. = Nature NS readers may be interested in a recent paper which we have = published in the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington = which is part of our series on introduced leaf beetles of the Maritime = Provinces:</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span">Majka, C.G. and LeSage, L. 2007. Introduced = leaf beetles of the Maritime Provinces, 3: the Viburnum leaf beetle = <I>Pyrrhalta viburni </I>(Paykull) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). = Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 109(2): = 454=96462.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span">The earliest records of this European species = in North America are from specimens collected in 1924 in Annapolis = Royal, NS. In the paper we propose two possible historical scenarios in = relation to its presence there: a) that it might have been introduced = very early in Nova Scotia's history after the establishment of Annapolis = Royal in 1605, perhaps between 1710 to 1749 when the town was the = capital of Nova Scotia and there was considerable trans-Atlantic traffic = destined there; or b) via the medium of the=A0Annapolis Royal Nurseries = (1885 to ~ 1945) which in its time was the largest nursery in the = Atlantic Provinces, and imported a variety of exotic species of = <I>Viburnum</I>.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Those who are interested = can find an on-line copy of the paper at:</DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A = href=3D"http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/NHR/PDF/Pyrrhalta_viburni.pd= f">http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/NHR/PDF/Pyrrhalta_viburni.pdf</A>= </DIV><DIV><BR class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder">