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font-size: 13.3333px; font-weight: bold; ">To:</SPAN></B& This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0003_01C7ECC5.CA089120 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have 3 Highbush Cranberries over here on the next hill northeast of = Jamie. The two on the north side of our house have never been bothered by = anything. The one out back is a different story; most years I have given up and = cut it back to the ground. The last two years I have removed the affected = leaves as soon as I have noticed them and the rest of the plant has done well. =20 Marian Fulton 9 Alder Drive Hantsport NS =20 -----Original Message----- From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca = [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] On Behalf Of Jamie Simpson Sent: 01 September 2007 10:35 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 Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Eastern Wood Peewee and Viburnum Leaf Beetle =20 All =20 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. ----- Original Message -----=20 From: c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca=20 To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca=20 Cc: Melanie <mailto:melanie.priesnitz@acadiau.ca> Priesnitz ; Nicole <mailto:063619o@acadiau.ca> Oliver ; Jim <mailto:jwolford@eastlink.ca> Wolford ; Peter Romkey <mailto:peter.romkey@acadiau.ca> ; Ruth Newell <mailto:ruth.newell@acadiau.ca> ; Jean <mailto:jtimpa@ns.sympatico.ca> Timpa ; Marian <mailto:ZinckMC@gov.ns.ca> Munro ; Dave McCorquodale <mailto:david_mccorquodale@capebretonu.ca> ; Dick <mailto:drogers@wildwoodlabs.com> Rogers ; Todd Smith <mailto:todd.smith@acadiau.ca> ; Stephanie <mailto:sdhaythorn@ns.sympatico.ca> Robertson=20 Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 12:41 PM Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Eastern Wood Peewee and Viburnum Leaf Beetle =20 Hi Jim,=20 =20 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. =20 The larvae are actually a pale color with many small black dots on them: =20 http://www.zin.ru/ANIMALIA/COLEOPTERA/images/foto/pyrhalvr.jpg =20 Look for adults on the leaves: =20 http://www.biol.uni.wroc.pl/cassidae/European%20Chrysomelidae/Iconography= /Py rrhalta%20viburni.jpg =20 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. =20 All the best! =20 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 _____ =20 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition.=20 Version: 7.5.484 / Virus Database: 269.12.4/969 - Release Date: = 8/23/2007 4:04 PM ------=_NextPart_000_0003_01C7ECC5.CA089120 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV=3D"Content-Type" CONTENT=3D"text/html; = charset=3Dus-ascii"> <meta name=3DGenerator content=3D"Microsoft Word 10 (filtered)"> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Tahoma; panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;} @font-face {font-family:Times; panose-1:2 2 6 3 5 4 5 2 3 4;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:blue; text-decoration:underline;} p {margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} span.EmailStyle19 {font-family:Arial; color:navy;} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:2.0cm 1.0cm 1.0cm 1.0cm;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> </head> <body bgcolor=3Dwhite lang=3DEN-US link=3Dblue vlink=3Dblue = style=3D'WORD-WRAP: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space;-khtml-line-break: after-white-space'> <div class=3DSection1> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 color=3Dnavy face=3DArial><span = style=3D'font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I have 3 Highbush Cranberries over = here on the next hill northeast of Jamie. The two on the north side of our = house have never been bothered by anything. The one out back is a = different story; most years I have given up and cut it back to the ground. = The last two years I have removed the affected leaves as soon as I have noticed = them and the rest of the plant has done well.</span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 color=3Dnavy face=3DArial><span = style=3D'font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 color=3Dnavy face=3DArial><span = style=3D'font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Marian Fulton</span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 color=3Dnavy face=3DArial><span = style=3D'font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>9 Alder Drive</span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 color=3Dnavy face=3DArial><span = style=3D'font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hantsport</span></font><font = size=3D2 color=3Dnavy face=3DArial><span = style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:navy'> </span></font><font size=3D2 color=3Dnavy = face=3DArial><span = style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>NS</span></font><= /p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 color=3Dnavy face=3DArial><span = style=3D'font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3D2 = face=3DTahoma><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original = Message-----<br> <