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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail-1469-147985624 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Marg, On 25-May-10, at 1:59 PM, Marg Millard wrote: > We usually have a number of Mourning cloaks here. Big ones and > smaller. I thought maybe just different stages of development. Adult butterflies are the final stage of the development of a butterfly which goes from egg, through several larval instars, to become a chrysalis, finally emerging as an adult butterfly. Once they emerge as adults they no longer grow at all. There will be some variation in adult size based on the nutrition of the larvae as they were growing, sexual dimorphism, and (if these are present here in Nova Scotia) different subspecies. > There were a number out and about the other day. There are times > when the apples from the tree furthest from the house (early > transparents, I am told) are rotting there are at least 100 or more. > They are everywhere. They light on me when I am out and about; drunk > as lords are they. Some stay the winter. > Marg Millard, White Point, Queens > http://MargMillard.ca All the best! Chris Christopher Majka <c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca> | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada * Research Associate: Nova Scotia Museum | http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mnh/research-asfr.htm * Review Editor: The Coleopterists Bulletin | http://www.coleopsoc.org/ * Subject Editor: ZooKeys | http://pensoftonline.net/zookeys/index.php/journal/index * Associate Editor: Journal of the Acadian Entomological Society | http://www.acadianes.org/journal.html * Editor: Atlantic Canada Coleoptera | http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/NHR/atlantic_coleoptera.html "Whenever I hear of the capture of rare beetles, I feel like an old war-horse at the sound of a trumpet." - Charles Darwin --Apple-Mail-1469-147985624 Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Marg,<div><br><div><div>On = 25-May-10, at 1:59 PM, Marg Millard wrote:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: = rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; = font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; = letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: = auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; = widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div = bgcolor=3D"#ffffff"><div><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"2">We usually have = a number of Mourning cloaks here. Big ones and smaller. I thought maybe = just different stages of development. = </font></div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Adult = butterflies are the final stage of the development of a butterfly which = goes from egg, through several larval instars, to become a chrysalis, = finally emerging as an adult butterfly. Once they emerge as adults they = no longer grow at all. There will be some variation in adult size based = on the nutrition of the larvae as they were growing, sexual dimorphism, = and (if these are present here in Nova Scotia) different = subspecies. </div><br><blockquote type=3D"cite"><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: = rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; = font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; = letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: = auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; = widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div = bgcolor=3D"#ffffff"><div><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"2">There were a = number out and about the other day. There are times when the apples from = the tree furthest from the house (early transparents, I am told) are = rotting there are at least 100 or more. They are everywhere. They light = on me when I am out and about; drunk as lords are they. Some stay = the winter.</font></div><div><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"2">Marg = Millard, White Point, Queens</font></div><div><font face=3D"Arial" = size=3D"2"><a = href=3D"http://MargMillard.ca">http://MargMillard.ca</a></font></div></div= ></span></blockquote></div><br></div><div>All the = best!</div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div><br><br><div = apple-content-edited=3D"true"> <span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: = normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: = normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: = none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style=3D"word-wrap: = break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: = normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: = normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: = normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style=3D"word-wrap: = break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D