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--Apple-Mail-5-189387052 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Great photos, Paul! Everyone should notice the large, pink, obvious mite on the back of the second beetle, the black and red one. Here is what Stephen Marshall wrote in his big tome, "INSECTS: Their Natural History and Diversity" (2006, Firefly Books): "Nicrophorus adults ... invariably carry numerous small reddish mites (Poechilochirus spp.). These acarine hitchhikers are regular associates of burying beetles and, although they eat both fly and beetle eggs, they purportedly 'pay for their ride' by eating fly eggs that would otherwise hatch as maggots able to compete with burying beetle larvae." Also beware of common names like the ones used here by Paul. Both Nicrophorus (burying beetles) and Necrophila (just called carrion beetles) contain individual species named "americana", so that "American Carrion Beetle" is perhaps confusing. Always check the Latinized names; hence the importance of using them. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. Begin forwarded message: > From: Paul L <contact@junponline.com> > Date: June 17, 2013 11:24:36 AM ADT > To: "naturens@chebucto.ns.ca" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> > Subject: [NatureNS] Carrion Beetles > Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > > Saw an American Carrion beetle in Hammonds Plains yesterday (looked > like a bee while flying) and coincidently another carrion beetle, a > Boreal Carrion Beetle last sunday at Keji Seaside Adjunct, got a > few good pictures here: > American Carrion: > http://www.wildlifesightings.net/temp/AmericanCarrionBeetleInsect.html > Boreal Carrion: > http://www.wildlifesightings.net/temp/BorealCarrionBeetleInsect.html > > > Paul Lindgreen > Wildlife Sightings http://www.WildlifeSightings.net > Contribute nature sightings and be part of citizen science --Apple-Mail-5-189387052 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII <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">Great photos, Paul! Everyone should notice the = large, pink, obvious mite on the back of the second beetle, the black = and red one. Here is what Stephen Marshall wrote in his big tome, = "INSECTS: Their Natural History and Diversity" (2006, Firefly = Books):</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">"<i>Nicrophorus</i> adults ... invariably carry = numerous small reddish mites (<i>Poechilochirus </i>spp.). These = acarine hitchhikers are regular associates of burying beetles and, = although they eat both fly and beetle eggs, they purportedly 'pay for = their ride' by eating fly eggs that would otherwise hatch as maggots = able to compete with burying beetle larvae."</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">Also = beware of common names like the ones used here by Paul. Both = Nicrophorus (burying beetles) and Necrophila (just called carrion = beetles) contain individual species named "americana", so that "American = Carrion Beetle" is perhaps confusing. Always check the Latinized = names; hence the importance of using them.</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">Cheers = from Jim in Wolfville.</font></div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded = message:</div><br class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">Paul L <<a = href=3D"mailto:contact@junponline.com">contact@junponline.com</a>></fon= t></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">June 17, 2013 11:24:36 AM = ADT</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">"<a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a>" = <<a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a>></f= ont></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[NatureNS] Carrion = Beetles</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></font>= </div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: Calibri; font-size: = 16px; "><div dir=3D"ltr">Saw an American Carrion beetle in Hammonds = Plains yesterday (looked like a bee while flying) and coincidently = another carrion beetle, a Boreal Carrion Beetle last sunday at Keji = Seaside Adjunct, got a few good pictures here:<br>American = Carrion:<br><a = href=3D"http://www.wildlifesightings.net/temp/AmericanCarrionBeetleInsect.= html">http://www.wildlifesightings.net/temp/AmericanCarrionBeetleInsect.ht= ml</a><br>Boreal Carrion:<br><a = href=3D"http://www.wildlifesightings.net/temp/BorealCarrionBeetleInsect.ht= ml">http://www.wildlifesightings.net/temp/BorealCarrionBeetleInsect.html</= a><br><br><br><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: = 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span lang=3D"EN-US" = style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">Paul = Lindgreen</span><span lang=3D"EN-US" style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; = font-size: 10pt; "><br></span><span lang=3D"EN-US" style=3D"font-family: = Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">Wildlife Sightings<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang=3D"EN-US" = style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "><span style=3D"color: = blue; "><a href=3D"http://www.junponline.com/" target=3D"_blank"><font = color=3D"#0000ff"></font></a><font color=3D"#0000ff"><a = href=3D"http://www.WildlifeSightings.net" = target=3D"_blank">http://www.WildlifeSightings.net</a></font></span></span= ><span lang=3D"EN-US" style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; = "><span style=3D"color: blue; "><span lang=3D"EN-US" style=3D"font-family:= Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "><span style=3D"color: blue; "><font = color=3D"#000000"><em><br></em></font></span></span></span></span><span = lang=3D"EN-US" style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "><span = style=3D"color: blue; "><span lang=3D"EN-US" style=3D"font-family: = Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "><span style=3D"color: blue; "><font = color=3D"#000000"><em>Contribute nature sightings and be part of citizen = science<br></em></font></span></span></span></span></div></div></span></bl= ockquote></div><br></body></html>= --Apple-Mail-5-189387052--
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