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min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; --0016e6db2d23e3973504777f7a60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 All Q&Q are also available as free podcasts. I get it automatically downloaded via iTunes my iPod every week. On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 5:06 PM, James W. Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>wrote: > *NOV. 2, 2009* - I found a *western conifer seed bug* on our front screen > door at home in Wolfville. Locally these bugs try to get into homes in > autumn in order to overwinter, sometimes in numbers (but usually singles in > my experience). This is a large insect with noticeable diamond-shaped > enlargements on each hind leg. It was featured on a past *Quirks & Quarks > * show for its special infra-red sense organ on its underside? for finding > conifer cones by the fact that they are a bit warmer in temperature than > their trees. > > *NOV. 3, 2009* - In east Wolfville, in the garden of Brenda & Bill > Thexton, Bob Thexton noticed a small swarm of flies that was moving up and > down in a dancing movement, just a metre or so above the ground. This is > probably a swarm of male flies, perhaps *winter crane flies?*, that is > dancing and buzzing to attract females of the same species. I don't recall > reports of these over the past couple of winters, but Jean Timpa in > Wolfville used to report these often in late autumn or spring, and I think > Andrew Hebda? eventually identified to that family a fly that was captured > by someone and submitted. But I think we still need someone to have an > insect net at the right time and place to capture some of the dancing flies > and get them identified for sure. The flies in question are small, and are > difficult to observe as they fly; they are smallish and Bob said these had > long legs (like real crane flies). > > Speaking of flies, did some of you hear *Quirks and Quarks* last Saturday, > Oct. 31, and the item on a *"unicorn fly" *being found in amber? Check it > out by Googling "quirks" and clicking on the most recent show. Also note > that the Q&Q Web site has many years of past shows all archived for all of > us. > > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville > > Jim (James W.) Wolford > 91 Wickwire Ave. > Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada > B4P 1W3 > > phone 902-542-9204 > e-mail <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > > "In wildness is the preservation of the world" -- Henry David Thoreau > > > -- Rick Ballard Dartmouth,Nova Scotia, Canada http://www.ideaphore.com --0016e6db2d23e3973504777f7a60 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable All Q&Q are also available as free podcasts. I get it automatically dow= nloaded via iTunes my iPod every week.<br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On= Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 5:06 PM, James W. Wolford <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a hre= f=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>></span> w= rote:<br> <blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, = 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style=3D"wor= d-wrap: break-word;"><div style=3D"margin: 0px;"><font style=3D"font-family= : Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;= font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch= : normal;" size=3D"3" face=3D"Helvetica"><b>NOV. 2, 2009</b> - I found a <b= >western conifer seed bug</b> on our front screen door at home in Wolfville= . =A0Locally these bugs try to get into homes in autumn in order to overwin= ter, sometimes in numbers (but usually singles in my experience).=A0 This i= s a large insect with noticeable diamond-shaped enlargements on each hind l= eg.=A0 It was featured on a past <b>Quirks & Quarks</b> show for its sp= ecial infra-red sense organ on its underside? for finding conifer cones by = the fact that they are a bit warmer in temperature than their trees.</font>= </div> <div style=3D"margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margi= n: 0px;"><font style=3D"font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-va= riant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; f= ont-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size=3D"3" face=3D"Helvetica"= ><b>NOV. 3, 2009</b> - In east Wolfville, in the garden of Brenda & Bil= l Thexton, Bob Thexton noticed a small swarm of flies that was moving up an= d down in a dancing movement, just a metre or so above the ground.=A0 This = is probably a swarm of male flies, perhaps <b>winter crane flies?</b>, that= is dancing and buzzing to attract females of the same species.=A0 I don= 9;t recall reports of these over the past couple of winters, but Jean Timpa= in Wolfville used to report these often in late autumn or spring, and I th= ink Andrew Hebda? eventually identified to that family a fly that was captu= red by someone and submitted.=A0 But I think we still need someone to have = an insect net at the right time and place to capture some of the dancing fl= ies and get them identified for sure.=A0 The flies in question are small, a= nd are difficult to observe as they fly; they are smallish and Bob said the= se had long legs (like real crane flies).</font></div> <div style=3D"margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margi= n: 0px;"><font style=3D"font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-va= riant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; f= ont-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size=3D"3" face=3D"Helvetica"= >Speaking of flies, did some of you hear <b>Quirks and Quarks</b> last Satu= rday, Oct. 31, and the item on a <b>"unicorn fly" </b>being found= in amber?=A0 Check it out by Googling "quirks" and clicking on t= he most recent show.=A0 Also note that the Q&Q Web site has many years = of past shows all archived for all of us.</font></div> <div style=3D"margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px;"><div styl= e=3D"margin: 0px;"><font style=3D"font-family: Helvetica; font-style: norma= l; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height:= normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size=3D"3" face=3D"= Helvetica">Cheers from Jim in Wolfville</font></div> <div style=3D"margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margi= n: 0px;"><font style=3D"font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-va= riant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; f= ont-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size=3D"3" face=3D"Helvetica"= >Jim (James W.) Wolford</font></div> <div style=3D"margin: 0px;"><font style=3D"font-family: Helvetica; font-sty= le: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; lin= e-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size=3D"3"= face=3D"Helvetica">91 Wickwire Ave.</font></div> <div style=3D"margin: 0px;"><font style=3D"font-family: Helvetica; font-sty= le: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; lin= e-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size=3D"3"= face=3D"Helvetica">Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada</font></div> <div style=3D"margin: 0px;"><font style=3D"font-family: Helvetica; font-sty= le: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; lin= e-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size=3D"3"= face=3D"Helvetica">B4P 1W3</font></div> <div style=3D"margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margi= n: 0px;"><font style=3D"font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-va= riant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; f= ont-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size=3D"3" face=3D"Helvetica"= >phone 902-542-9204</font></div> <div style=3D"margin: 0px;"><font style=3D"font-family: Helvetica; font-sty= le: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; lin= e-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size=3D"3"= face=3D"Helvetica">e-mail <<a href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca" ta= rget=3D"_blank">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>></font></div> <div style=3D"margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margi= n: 0px;"><font style=3D"font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-va= riant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; f= ont-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size=3D"3" face=3D"Helvetica"= >"In wildness is the preservation of the world" -- Henry David Th= oreau</font></div> <div><br></div></div><div><br></div> </div></blockquote></div><br><br clear=3D"all"><br>-- <br>Rick Ballard <br>= Dartmouth,Nova Scotia, Canada <br><a href=3D"http://www.ideaphore.com">http= ://www.ideaphore.com</a><br> --0016e6db2d23e3973504777f7a60--
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