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--Apple-Mail=_9A51B6F0-1903-49B4-B91B-647E9985BDB6 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Begin forwarded message: > From: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Subject: pelecinid wasp seen at Miner's Marsh > Date: August 2, 2016 at 1:10:53 PM ADT > To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca> > Cc: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> >=20 > AUG. 1, 2016 - MINER=92S MARSH =97 I checked lots of the common = milkweed plants there, looking for signs of monarch caterpillars = damaging the leaves, but no damages nor caterpillars were seen. = However, one leaf had a very recognizable wasp on it: it was a female of = the kind that hunts white grubs of June beetles with its very long and = skinny & black abdomen =97 a pelecinid wasp, Pelecinus polyturator. = Just Google this wasp=92s name if you want info=92 or photos of it. >=20 > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. --Apple-Mail=_9A51B6F0-1903-49B4-B91B-647E9985BDB6 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 <html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html = charset=3Dwindows-1252"></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space;"><br><div style=3D""><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;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">Jim Wolford <<a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>><br><= /span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>pelecinid wasp = seen at Miner's Marsh</b><br></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">August 2, 2016 at = 1:10:53 PM ADT<br></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">Nature BNS <<a = href=3D"mailto:nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a>><br></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Cc: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">Jim Wolford <<a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>><br><= /span></div><br><div><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" = content=3D"text/html charset=3Dwindows-1252"><div style=3D"word-wrap: = break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space;"><div style=3D"margin: 0px;"><b>AUG. 1, 2016 - = MINER=92S MARSH</b> =97 I checked lots of the common milkweed plants = there, looking for signs of monarch caterpillars damaging the leaves, = but no damages nor caterpillars were seen. However, one leaf had a = very recognizable wasp on it: it was a female of the kind that hunts = white grubs of June beetles with its very long and skinny & black = abdomen =97 a pelecinid wasp, <span style=3D"font-size: 13px; = font-family: Arial;"><i>Pelecinus polyturator. </i>Just Google = this wasp=92s name if you want info=92 or photos of it.</span></div><div = style=3D"margin: 0px;"><span style=3D"font-size: 13px; font-family: = Arial;"><br></span></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial;">Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville.</span></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>= --Apple-Mail=_9A51B6F0-1903-49B4-B91B-647E9985BDB6--
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