[NatureNS] new pictures ... ID

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Thank you for your help.
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
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From: "Christopher Majka" <c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: [NatureNS] new pictures ... ID


> Hi Jeannie,
>
> I'll add a few to what Phil has already identified.
>
> On 24-Jun-08, at 9:30 AM, Phil Schappert wrote:
>
>> I'm skipping the flower shots assuming that you know what those are.
>
> 2008_0623wildlife0006 - lady slipper (Cypripedium acaule Aiton)
> 2008_0623wildlife0012 - nodding trillium (Trilium cernuum L.)
> 2008_0623wildlife0014 - pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea L.)
> 2008_0623wildlife0016 - round-leaved sundew (Drosera rotundifolia L.)
> 2008_0623wildlife0019 - cow-lily (Nuphar variegata Durand)
> 2008_0623wildlife0021 - rose pogonia  (Pogonia ophioglossoides (L.)
> Ker-Gawler)
>
>
>> Some of the insect shots are not large enough or do not show enough
>> detail to let anyone nail them down but here's my best shot --
>> hopefully Chris or Derek will be able to add to these...
>>
>> In order, using the last 2 numbers of the file name as identifieres:
>>
>> 33      Luna moth (I assume you know this one!)
>> 23      caterpillar of Harris's Checkerspot (Chlosyne harrisii)
>> 48      aphid/mealybug/scale insect of some kind (see 41)
>> 50      possibly Ashen Pinion (Lithophane antennata) moth
>> caterpillar -- did it have a fairly wide yellow line on the sides?
>> 53      I'm not familiar with this Sphingid moth -- hopefully Derek
>> will recognize it.
>
> This superficially looks like a sphingid, but it is really a geometrid:
>
> 2008_0623wildlife0053 - lemon plagodis (Plagodis serinaria H.-S.)
>
> A common species in Nova Scotia which feeds on a large variety of
> hardwoods. There are good photographs of the species in a similar
> posture on:
>
> http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/Files/Live/Living33.9F.shtml
> http://www.mothindex.com/geo2.html
>
> Cheers!
>
> Chris
>
>>
>
> Christopher Majka
> Nova Scotia Museum, 1747 Summer St., Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada  B3H
> 3A6
> c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca
>
>
>
>


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