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--Boundary_(ID_m2LVc7gDu6VjeVFRXRS4zw) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT AUG. 21, 2008 -- Today on the Acadia Univ. campus today, I found lots of apparent globular SCALE INSECTS on twigs of a honey-locust tree. Best match in one of my tree-insect books is the BLACK SCALE, Saissetia oleae (Olivier)(Coccidae?), which occurs on a wide variety of trees, including honey-locust. Also I saw an impressive long, black, female PELECINUS WASP -- this is the primarily parthenogenetic (cloning?) wasp that uses her long abdomen to reach into the soil to get her ovipositor down to larvae of June beetles, which then are "parasitized" (actually predated -- outcome is death of beetle), after detecting such beetles apparently with special sensors in their enlarged hind tibiae? Cheers from Jim in Wolfville --Boundary_(ID_m2LVc7gDu6VjeVFRXRS4zw) Content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>AUG. = 21, 2008</b> --=A0Today on the Acadia Univ. campus today, I found lots = of apparent globular <b>SCALE INSECTS</b> on twigs of a honey-locust = tree. =A0 Best match in one of my tree-insect books is the <b>BLACK = SCALE,</b> <i>Saissetia oleae </i>(Olivier)(Coccidae?), which occurs on = a wide variety of trees, including honey-locust.=A0</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">Also I = saw an impressive long, black, female <b>PELECINUS WASP</b> -- this is = the primarily parthenogenetic (cloning?) wasp that uses her long abdomen = to reach into the soil to get her ovipositor down to larvae of June = beetles, which then are "parasitized" (actually predated -- outcome is = death of beetle), after detecting such beetles apparently with special = sensors in their enlarged hind tibiae?</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Cheers from = Jim in Wolfville</div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div><br></div> </body></html>= --Boundary_(ID_m2LVc7gDu6VjeVFRXRS4zw)--
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