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</DIV><DIV><BR class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"> --Apple-Mail-28--876894123 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Hi Jim, On 22-Aug-07, at 9:23 PM, Jim Wolford wrote: > Thanks, Chris! In the Irving Botanical Gardens in Wolfville we saw > blackish larvae of presumably the same beetle on the partly > devoured leaves of highbush cranberry earlier in the season, and I > have seen moderate amounts of defoliation there in two different > places (one in Gardens, other along adjoining Acadia Woodland > Trails), but as far as I know, we have not yet seen nor collected > any for the Museum collection. The larvae are actually a pale color with many small black dots on them: http://www.zin.ru/ANIMALIA/COLEOPTERA/images/foto/pyrhalvr.jpg Look for adults on the leaves: http://www.biol.uni.wroc.pl/cassidae/European%20Chrysomelidae/ Iconography/Pyrrhalta%20viburni.jpg If you find some the Museum would be happy to have some specimens since at the moment there are no records from Kings County and I'm very interested in documenting the extent of this species distribution in the region. All the best! 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-28--876894123 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,<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On = 22-Aug-07, at 9:23 PM, Jim Wolford wrote:</DIV><BR = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type=3D"cite"> Thanks, = Chris! =A0In the Irving Botanical Gardens in Wolfville we saw blackish = larvae of presumably the same beetle on the partly devoured leaves of = highbush cranberry earlier in the season, and I have seen moderate = amounts of defoliation there in two different places (one in Gardens, = other along adjoining Acadia Woodland Trails), but as far as I know, we = have not yet seen nor collected any for the Museum = collection.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The larvae are actually a = pale color with many small black dots on them:</DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A = href=3D"http://www.zin.ru/ANIMALIA/COLEOPTERA/images/foto/pyrhalvr.jpg">ht= tp://www.zin.ru/ANIMALIA/COLEOPTERA/images/foto/pyrhalvr.jpg</A></DIV><DIV= ><BR class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Look for adults on the = leaves:</DIV><DIV><BR class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A = href=3D"http://www.biol.uni.wroc.pl/cassidae/European%20Chrysomelidae/Icon= ography/Pyrrhalta%20viburni.jpg">http://www.biol.uni.wroc.pl/cassidae/Euro= pean%20Chrysomelidae/Iconography/Pyrrhalta%20viburni.jpg</A></DIV><DIV><BR= class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If you find some the = Museum would be happy to have some specimens since at the moment there = are no records from Kings County and I'm very interested in documenting = the extent of this species distribution in the = region.</DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>All the best!</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-28--876894123--
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