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Fascinating as always to hear from Fred. I wonder if many people know the link between cluster flies and the introduced earth worm? Also- Being a non-entomologist, do we have reason to be concerned about our native lady beetle? I am not sure when I might have seen one last. You have an interesting sign-off title- Fragile Inheritance Natural History Regards, Donna On 2020-04-18 1:52 p.m., Fred Schueler wrote: > On 4/18/2020 12:07 PM, Donna Crossland wrote: >> Thanks to Randy for stating what I was thinking also. Don't release >> invasive Asian beetles. They vacuum up nicely, much more easily than >> cluster flies, which are also on my list. Seeing so many of these >> Asian beetles now, I do wonder what impact they are having on native >> insect diversity. There are likely many tragedies in the insect >> world caused by a litany of recently introduced invasive species to >> which we are blissfully unaware. I often wonder what life was like >> before cluster flies. > > * well, of course in Canada, back in the day, east of some mountains > in BC there were no Earthworms to serve as hosts for the Cluster > Flies. The story is told that New York selected a native Ladybird > Beetle as a State Insect, but by the time the process had been > processed, the State Insect was extinct in the state, due to crowding > out by the Asian Ladybirds. > > fred. > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad > Fragile Inheritance Natural History > 'Wildlife on Roads' - > http://doingnaturalhistory.blogspot.ca/2018/03/upcoming-book-wildlife-on-roads-handbook.html > 'Daily' Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/ > 4 St-Lawrence Street Bishops Mills, RR#2 Oxford Station, Ontario K0G 1T0 > on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44.87156° N 75.70095° W > (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/ > ------------------------------------------------------------ > "Feasting on Conolophus to the conclusion of consanguinity" > - > http://www.lulu.com/shop/frederick-w-schueler/feasting-on-conolophus-to-the-conclusion-of-consanguinity-a-collection-of-darwinian-verses/paperback/product-23517445.html > ------------------------------------------------------------ -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
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