[NatureNS] bug ID

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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
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From: <c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca>
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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
>
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> 1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada  B3H 3A6
> (902) 424-6435   Email <c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca>
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