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Index of Subjects Today,July 4th in Port Hawkesbury,Inverness County.Did you my email regarding the drop off at the museum tomorrow? 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: Friday, July 04, 2008 10:57 PM Subject: Re: [NatureNS] pictures > Hi Jeannie, > > Yes it is a weevil, to whit the so-called "poplar and willow borer", > Cryptorhynchus lapathi (Linnaeus), a large and distinctive Holarctic > (occurring in North America and Eurasia) weevil in the subfamily > Cryptorhynchinae. There is further information on this species at: > > http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/publications/00198/poplar_and_willow_borer.htm > http://www.forestpests.org/poplar/willowborer.html > > And good photos at: > > http://www.zin.ru/ANIMALIA/COLEOPTERA/RUS/crylapdg.htm > http://www.bkmakro.de/Makro/images/Kaefer/Cryptorhynchus%20lapathi%201.jpg > > Can you let me know where and when you collected it? There are only > records from Cape Breton, both from Cape Breton County, so the > information is of interest. > > Best wishes! > > Chris > > > On 4-Jul-08, at 10:18 PM, Jeannie wrote: > >> Here are a couple of pictures of what I think is a weevil..can >> someone confirm, or if it is not,can you tell me what it is. If it >> is indeed a weevil can you tell what kind it is. >> Thank you,Jeannie >> http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2593125560025930195FEPjcT >> Jeannie Shermerhorn,Port Hawkesbury >> >> Cottage....Cape George,Cape Breton > > 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: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.4.5/1533 - Release Date: 03/07/2008 7:19 PM
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