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--Boundary_(ID_HxWk/xD0TW1wA1KHxgloYA) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT AUGUST 5 & 6, 2011 - Pat & I drove to Lunenburg for 2 of the 3.5-day Folk Harbour Festival. On our first afternoon there, on the lawn behind the Lincoln House ex- B&B, we found a very-long-bodied female Pelecinidae black wasp that hunts and preys on grubs/larvae of May beetles or June beetles under the sod. Very probably this was a Pelecinus polyturator , which exists as nearly all females in most or all areas of occurrence. The species has a wide range in North America and apparently exists under several different names. Since they are nearly all females, the eggs they lay, one at a time on each beetle larva found, must be parthenogenic, i.e. not needing fertilization, and probably formed by a modified form of meiosis. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. --Boundary_(ID_HxWk/xD0TW1wA1KHxgloYA) 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; "><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>AUGUST = 5 & 6, 2011</b> - Pat & I drove<b> to Lunenburg</b> for 2 of the = 3.5-day<b> Folk Harbour Festival</b>. </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">On our = first afternoon there, on the lawn behind the Lincoln House ex-B&B, = we found a <b>very-long-bodied female Pelecinidae black wasp</b> that = hunts and preys on grubs/larvae of May beetles or June beetles under the = sod. Very probably this was a <i>Pelecinus polyturator</i> , which = exists as nearly all females in most or all areas of occurrence. = The species has a wide range in North America and apparently exists = under several different names. Since they are nearly all females, = the eggs they lay, one at a time on each beetle larva found, must be = parthenogenic, i.e. not needing fertilization, and probably formed by a = modified form of meiosis.</font></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"><br></font></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">Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville.</font></div> </body></html>= --Boundary_(ID_HxWk/xD0TW1wA1KHxgloYA)--
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