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what this site is about, as I understood i This is a multipart message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_002D_01D153AC.BEFCBD90 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable My understanding, too! Gotta keep smiling! From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] = On Behalf Of Donna Crossland Sent: January 20, 2016 3:19 PM To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Subject: RE: [NatureNS] strange large grub on snow to ID Natural history is about all things great and small. That is what this sit= e is about, as I understood it. Donna Crossland From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] = On Behalf Of David & Alison Webster Sent: January-20-16 3:09 PM To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Subject: Re: [NatureNS] strange large grub on snow to ID Hi Donna & All, Right. With threats like Noctua pronuba invasions, at the gate, it does= make one wonder why anyone would worry about little things like climate ch= ange. And it probably did not enter the country legally, by going through C= ustoms and Immigration. Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna Crossland" <dcrossland@eastlink.ca> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2016 1:54 PM Subject: RE: [NatureNS] strange large grub on snow to ID > Now that I've read that the Yellow Underwing moth is yet another new inva= sive species introduction, I will retract my advice to put the collected la= rvae back outside. > > It just resends the message that if something looks very strange/out of t= he ordinary, and never observed before, one should automatically question w= hether it is a relatively new arrival, and whether some new ecological conc= erns may be associated with the new species. > Interesting. > > Donna Crossland > > -----Original Message----- > From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca= ] On Behalf Of Fred Schueler > Sent: January-18-16 10:02 PM > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] strange large grub on snow to ID > > On 1/18/2016 5:34 PM, bev wigney wrote: > >> Looks like a Yellow Underwing moth larva to me. More about them on >> this web page. >> http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2013/01/20/winter-cutworm-found-in-snow/ > > * incredible how these guys think they can find a better hibernation site= so late in the fall/winter! > > Here's ones on the streets in the village here: > > Noctua pronuba 1 Dec 2015 > Noctua pronuba 2 Dec 2015 > cf Noctua pronuba 4 Dec 2015 > cf Noctua pronuba 6 Dec 2015 > cf Noctua pronuba 8 Dec 2015 > cf Noctua pronuba 9 Dec 2015 > cf Noctua pronuba 14 Dec 2015 > Noctua pronuba 17 Dec 2015 > cf Noctua pronuba 21 Dec 2015 > > (cf's are mostly roadkills) - Bev led me to the name of these this year, = and even though the previous identifications are retrospective they seem to= be increasing in accordance with their invasive nature. > > fred. > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > >> On 2016-01-18, at 7:11 PM, Donna Crossland <dcrossland@eastlink.ca >> <mailto:dcrossland@eastlink.ca>> wrote: >> >>> I need the help of those naturalists who revel in the entomological wor= ld: >>> >>> I received a photo from my sister (link below) wanting to know the >>> name of this large =E2=80=98grub=E2=80=99 found near the Bridgewater ar= ea on Jan >>> 13th. There were two of them crawling on top of the fresh snow. >>> They were almost the size a =E2=80=9Ca little finger=E2=80=9D, referrin= g to both >>> length and diameter of a small finger. (A good snack for a bird, >>> except they are now apparently in a jar.) >>> >>> > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad Daily Paintings - http://= karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/ > Vulnerable Watersheds - http://vulnerablewaters.blogspot.ca/ > Mudpuppy Night in Oxford Mills - http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm > RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0 > on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W > (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/ > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2016.0.7294 / Virus Database: 4522/11442 - Release Date: 01/20/1= 6 > --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ------=_NextPart_000_002D_01D153AC.BEFCBD90 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html xmlns:v=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o=3D"urn:schemas-micr= osoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" = xmlns:m=3D"http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns=3D"http:= //www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta http-equiv=3DContent-Type content= =3D"text/html; charset=3Dutf-8"><meta name=3DGenerator content=3D"Microsoft= Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;} @font-face {font-family:Tahoma; panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {mso-style-priority:99; color:blue; text-decoration:underline;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {mso-style-priority:99; color:purple; text-decoration:underline;} p.MsoAcetate, li.MsoAcetate, div.MsoAcetate {mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-link:"Balloon Text Char"; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";} span.BalloonTextChar {mso-style-name:"Balloon Text Char"; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-link:"Balloon Text"; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";} span.EmailStyle19 {mso-style-type:personal; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D;} span.EmailStyle21 {mso-style-type:personal-reply; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D;} =2EMsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; font-size:10.0pt;} @page WordSection1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt;} div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} --></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapedefaults v:ext=3D"edit" spidmax=3D"1026" /> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapelayout v:ext=3D"edit"> <o:idmap v:ext=3D"edit" data=3D"1" /> </o:shapelayout>