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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_001B_01CC561D.4F7379F0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable While wandering the neighborhood recently (Dartmouth) I came across an = old metal container filled with water and mosquito larvae and pupae = (tumblers) . I collected about thirty tumblers in jars to check the = species. The first ten or so that hatched were Common Rain Barrel = Mosquito (Culex pipiens). The next ten or so were Japanese Mosquito = (Ochlerotatus japonicus). This species was first found in North America = in New Jersey in 1998. It was first reported in New Brunswick in 2005. = It was reported in Nova Scortia in 2008 (Jeff Ogden). It may prove to = be one of the most common mosquitoes in the HRM. Its rapid expansion is = amazing, spreading in 13 years to more than twenty states and at least = four provinces. It is a container breeding species and beautifully colored with a = striped golden back, silver spots on the thorax and abdomen and black = legs broadly striped with white below the joints. Jim Edsall=20 Dartmouth, N.S. check out my personal website at=20 http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/jim.edsall/ ------=_NextPart_000_001B_01CC561D.4F7379F0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dwindows-1252" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META name=3DGENERATOR content=3D"MSHTML 8.00.6001.19088"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV>While wandering the neighborhood recently (Dartmouth) I came across = an old=20 metal container filled with water and mosquito larvae and pupae = (tumblers) . I=20 collected about thirty tumblers in jars to check the species. The = first ten=20 or so that hatched were Common Rain Barrel Mosquito (<EM>Culex = pipiens</EM>).=20 The next ten or so were Japanese Mosquito (<EM>Ochlerotatus = japonicus</EM>).=20 This species was first found in North America in New Jersey in = 1998. It was=20 first reported in New Brunswick in 2005. It was reported in Nova = Scortia=20 in 2008 (Jeff Ogden). It may prove to be one of the most = common=20 mosquitoes in the HRM. Its rapid expansion is amazing, spreading in 13 = years to=20 more than twenty states and at least four provinces.</DIV> <DIV>It is a container breeding species and beautifully colored with a = striped=20 golden back, silver spots on the thorax and abdomen and black legs = broadly=20 striped with white below the joints.</DIV> <DIV>Jim Edsall <BR>Dartmouth, N.S.<BR>check out my personal website at = <BR><A=20 href=3D"http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/jim.edsall/">http://www3.ns.sympatico= .ca/jim.edsall/</A></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_001B_01CC561D.4F7379F0--
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