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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail-138--277046426 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Bev, On 13-Jun-10, at 12:39 PM, bev wigney wrote: > And a couple of beetles which I've tenatively ID'd as Nicrophorus =20 > orbicollis, but they could be something quite else. One of them =20 > remained on the sheet for awhile, so I shot several photos as I =20 > could see it was carrying a lot of hitchhikers - which I guess to be =20= > Poecilochirus mites. > http://www.pbase.com/crocodile/image/125532193 Correct, this is Nicrophorus orbicollis Say. I've no idea what the =20 phoretic mites are. Excellent moth photos; I'm pressed for time at the moment, but here =20 are a few IDs: http://www.pbase.com/crocodile/image/125469193 This is a species of Hemaris and not Amphion floridensis. http://www.pbase.com/crocodile/image/125575780 http://www.pbase.com/crocodile/image/125576809 Phyllodesma americana (Harris) http://www.pbase.com/crocodile/image/125574191 Campaea perlata (Guen=E9e) http://www.pbase.com/crocodile/image/125576822 Fishia illocata (Walker) http://www.pbase.com/crocodile/image/125575837 Symmerista albifrons (J.E. Smith) http://www.pbase.com/crocodile/image/125576806 Halysidota tessellaris (J.E. Smith) & Xestia dolosa Franclemont http://www.pbase.com/crocodile/image/125575690 Epirrhoe alternata (Mueller) http://www.pbase.com/crocodile/image/125574188 This looks like Biston betularia (Linnaeus). Cheers! Chris Christopher Majka <c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca> | Halifax, Nova Scotia, =20 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 =20 war-horse at the sound of a trumpet." - Charles Darwin --Apple-Mail-138--277046426 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; ">Hi Bev,<div><br><div><div>On = 13-Jun-10, at 12:39 PM, bev wigney 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-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><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: = rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">And a couple of beetles which = I've tenatively ID'd as Nicrophorus orbicollis, but they could be = something quite else. One of them remained on the sheet for = awhile, so I shot several photos as I could see it was carrying a lot of = hitchhikers - which I guess to be Poecilochirus mites.<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><a target=3D"_blank" = href=3D"http://www.pbase.com/crocodile/image/125532193">http://www.pbase.c= om/crocodile/image/125532193</a><br></div></div></div></span></blockquote>= <div><br></div>Correct, this is <i>Nicrophorus orbicollis</i> Say. = I've no idea what the phoretic mites = are.</div><div><br></div><div>Excellent moth photos; I'm pressed for = time at the moment, but here are a few IDs:</div><div><br></div><div><a = href=3D"http://www.pbase.com/crocodile/image/125469193">http://www.pbase.c= om/crocodile/image/125469193</a></div>This is a species of = <i>Hemaris</i> and not <i>Amphion = floridensis</i>.</div><div><br></div><div><a = href=3D"http://www.pbase.com/crocodile/image/125575780">http://www.pbase.c= om/crocodile/image/125575780</a></div><div><a = href=3D"http://www.pbase.com/crocodile/image/125576809">http://www.pbase.c= om/crocodile/image/125576809</a></div><div><i>Phyllodesma americana</i> = (Harris)</div><div><br></div><div><a = href=3D"http://www.pbase.com/crocodile/image/125574191">http://www.pbase.c= om/crocodile/image/125574191</a></div><div><i>Campaea perlata</i> = (Guen=E9e)</div><div><br></div><div><a = href=3D"http://www.pbase.com/crocodile/image/125576822">http://www.pbase.c= om/crocodile/image/125576822</a></div><div><i>Fishia = illocata</i> (Walker)</div><div><br></div><div><a = href=3D"http://www.pbase.com/crocodile/image/125575837">http://www.pbase.c= om/crocodile/image/125575837</a></div><div><i>Symmerista albifrons</i> = (J.E. Smith)</div><div><br></div><div><a = href=3D"http://www.pbase.com/crocodile/image/125576806">http://www.pbase.c= om/crocodile/image/125576806</a></div><!--StartFragment--><div><span = style=3D"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><i>Halysidota = tessellaris</i></span><span style=3D"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> (J.E. Smith)</span> &</div><div><i>Xestia dolosa</i> = Franclemont</div><div><br></div><div><a = href=3D"http://www.pbase.com/crocodile/image/125575690">http://www.pbase.c= om/crocodile/image/125575690</a></div><div><i>Epirrhoe alternata</i> = (Mueller)</div><div><br></div><div><a = href=3D"http://www.pbase.com/crocodile/image/125574188">http://www.pbase.c= om/crocodile/image/125574188</a></div><div>This looks = like <i>Biston betularia = </i>(Linnaeus).</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers!</div><div><br></div><div>= Chris</div><br><br><div apple-content-edited=3D"true"> <span = class=3D"Apple-style