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Index of Subjects 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 jeannies@ns.sympatico.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Majka" <c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> 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 > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.4.1/1515 - Release Date: 23/06/2008 7:16 PM
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