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< --Apple-Mail-209--105669999 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Hi Jamie, On 1-Sep-07, at 10:35 AM, Jamie Simpson wrote: > All > > My highbush Cranberry has been totally - and I mean totally - > defoliated by this beetle twice in the last 3 years. They gave it > a pass in 2006. Where are you (and your unfortunate highbush cranberry) located? Cheers! Chris > ----- Original Message ----- > From: c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Cc: Melanie Priesnitz ; Nicole Oliver ; Jim Wolford ; Peter > Romkey ; Ruth Newell ; Jean Timpa ; Marian Munro ; Dave > McCorquodale ; Dick Rogers ; Todd Smith ; Stephanie Robertson > Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 12:41 PM > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Eastern Wood Peewee and Viburnum Leaf Beetle > > 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> > _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. > _._. > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.484 / Virus Database: 269.12.4/969 - Release Date: > 8/23/2007 4:04 PM > _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. _. 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-209--105669999 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 Jamie,<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On = 1-Sep-07, at 10:35 AM, Jamie Simpson wrote:</DIV><BR = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type=3D"cite"><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; = border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New = Roman; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; = font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; = text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: = 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><FONT = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"2"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; = ">All</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial" = size=3D"2"></FONT>=A0</DIV><DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial" size=3D"2"><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; = ">My highbush Cranberry has been totally - and I mean totally - = defoliated by this beetle twice in the last 3 years.=A0 They gave it a = pass in 2006.</SPAN></FONT></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Where are you (and your = unfortunate highbush cranberry) located?</DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cheers!</DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Chris</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE = type=3D"cite"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: = separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = Times New Roman; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: = normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: = normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; = text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; = orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; = "><BLOCKQUOTE style=3D"PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; = MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: = 0px"><DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial; font-family: arial; font-size: = 13.3333px; "><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: = arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">----- Original Message = -----</SPAN></DIV><DIV style=3D"BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; = font-color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><B = style=3D"font-family: arial; font-size: 13.3333px; font-weight: bold; = "><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: arial; = font-size: 13.3333px; font-weight: bold; ">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: arial; font-size: = 13.3333px; "> </SPAN><A title=3D"c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca" = href=3D"mailto:c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: arial; font-size: = 13.3333px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; = ">c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca</SPAN></A><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-family: arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></SPAN></DIV><DIV = style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial; font-family: arial; font-size: 13.3333px; = "><B style=3D"font-family: arial; font-size: 13.3333px; font-weight: = bold; "><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: arial; = font-size: 13.3333px; font-weight: bold; ">To:</SPAN></B&