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href=3D"mailto:c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca">c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca</A> Yes, actually someone did ID the apple tree borer,It may have been Angus. Thanks. Jeannie Shermerhorn,Port Hawkesbury Cottage....Cape George,Cape Breton "Let us permit Nature to have her way; she understands her business better than we do." - Michel de Montaigne jeannies@ns.sympatico.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: <c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 8:26 PM Subject: Re: [NatureNS] bug ID > Hi Angus, > > On 5-Sep-07, at 8:01 PM, Angus MacLean wrote: > >> Hi Jeannie: >> Appears to be a Blister Beetle but the photo is very dark on my >> screen. I'm unable to download it from your site or I could >> brighten it up. Chris or David Webster will be able to tell you >> more precisely. > > Not a blister beetle, but a rove beetle (note the very short elytra > leaving six abdominal segments exposed. In most blister beetles, > [i.e. Epicauta and Lytta] the elytra covers the abdomen. Even in > Meloe, only 4-5 abdominal segments are exposed and the elytral suture > is not parallel but is widely divergent ), to whit Tasgius ater > (Gravenhorst), an introduced European species. > >> Did anyone identify the previous creature (photo # DSC9458?? > > This is a longhorn beetle, the round-header apple tree borer (Saperda > candida Fabricius). > > Cheers! > > Chris > >> >> Angus >> >> At 10:04 PM 9/2/2007, you wrote: >>> Can anyone tell me what this is. >>> Thank you >>> http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2693632720025930195dhKpnX >>> Jeannie Shermerhorn,Port Hawkesbury >>> >>> Cottage....Cape George,Cape Breton >>> >>> >>> jeannies@ns.sympatico.ca > > _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. > _. > 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: 7.5.485 / Virus Database: 269.13.5/990 - Release Date: 04/09/2007 10:36 PM
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