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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail-32-661399624 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Bernard, On 25-Jun-10, at 9:15 AM, bernard burke wrote: > I spotted this female Ichneuman Wasp near the apartment buildings > front door late last night here in Dartmouth. As far as I can tell , > it is megarhyssa macrurus ? That's it! > > http://bernieb.smugmug.com/Nature/insectsspiders-etc/797514_MpFcT#912890543_3sbJd-L-LB > > http://bernieb.smugmug.com/Nature/insectsspiders-etc/797514_MpFcT#912890855_sEk46-L-LB > > http://bernieb.smugmug.com/Nature/insectsspiders-etc/797514_MpFcT#912891049_KkTVF-L-LB > > Perhaps surprisingly this critter is small ( for scale the bricks in > the photo are about 3 1/2 inches thick ) compared to a travelling > exhibition collection of some insects and such from around the world > presently being displayed at the Winners entrance to Mic Mac Mall Maybe compared to some tropical insects, but it the Maritimes it rates as a fairly substantive beast ... ;-> Cheers! 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-32-661399624 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 = Bernard,<div><br><div><div>On 25-Jun-10, at 9:15 AM, bernard burke = 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-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; font-size: medium; "><div = bgcolor=3D"#ffffff"><div><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"2">I spotted this = female Ichneuman Wasp near the apartment buildings front door late last = night here in Dartmouth. As far as I can tell , it is megarhyssa = macrurus = ?</font></div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's = it!</div><div><br></div><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-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; font-size: medium; "><div = bgcolor=3D"#ffffff"><div> </div><div><font face=3D"Arial" = size=3D"2"><a = href=3D"http://bernieb.smugmug.com/Nature/insectsspiders-etc/797514_MpFcT#= 912890543_3sbJd-L-LB">http://bernieb.smugmug.com/Nature/insectsspiders-etc= /797514_MpFcT#912890543_3sbJd-L-LB</a></font></div><div><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"2"></font> </div><div><font face=3D"Arial" = size=3D"2"><a = href=3D"http://bernieb.smugmug.com/Nature/insectsspiders-etc/797514_MpFcT#= 912890855_sEk46-L-LB">http://bernieb.smugmug.com/Nature/insectsspiders-etc= /797514_MpFcT#912890855_sEk46-L-LB</a></font></div><div><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"2"></font> </div><div><font face=3D"Arial" = size=3D"2"><a = href=3D"http://bernieb.smugmug.com/Nature/insectsspiders-etc/797514_MpFcT#= 912891049_KkTVF-L-LB">http://bernieb.smugmug.com/Nature/insectsspiders-etc= /797514_MpFcT#912891049_KkTVF-L-LB</a></font></div><div><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"2"></font> </div><div><font face=3D"Arial" = size=3D"2">Perhaps surprisingly this critter is small ( for scale the = bricks in the photo are about 3 1/2 inches thick ) compared to a = travelling exhibition collection of some insects and such from = around the world presently being displayed at the Winners entrance to = Mic Mac Mall</font></div><div><font face=3D"Arial" = size=3D"2"></font></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div><div>May= be compared to some tropical insects, but it the Maritimes it rates as a = fairly substantive beast ... = ;-></div><div><br></div><div><div>Cheers!</div><div><br></div><div>Chri= s</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-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; font-size: medium; "><div = bgcolor=3D"#ffffff"></div></span></blockquote></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-str