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Index of Subjects This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_003D_01CC5684.6F096420 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Okay, It may be pretty , but if it bites that doesn't count Jim? ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Jim Edsall=20 To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca=20 Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 10:48 PM Subject: [NatureNS] Japanese Mosquito 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_003D_01CC5684.6F096420 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><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>Okay, It may be pretty , but if it = bites that=20 doesn't count Jim?</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE=20 style=3D"BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; = PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"=20 dir=3Dltr> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV=20 style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B>=20 <A title=3Djim.edsall@bellaliant.net = href=3D"mailto:jim.edsall@bellaliant.net">Jim=20 Edsall</A> </DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=3Dnaturens@chebucto.ns.ca=20 href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</A> = </DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, August 08, 2011 = 10:48=20 PM</DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [NatureNS] Japanese=20 Mosquito</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>While wandering the neighborhood recently (Dartmouth) I came = across an=20 old metal container filled with water and mosquito larvae and pupae = (tumblers)=20 . I collected about thirty tumblers in jars to check the species. = The=20 first ten or so that hatched were Common Rain Barrel Mosquito = (<EM>Culex=20 pipiens</EM>). The next ten or so were Japanese Mosquito = (<EM>Ochlerotatus=20 japonicus</EM>). This species was first found in North America in=20 New Jersey in 1998. It was first reported in New Brunswick = in 2005.=20 It was reported in Nova Scortia in 2008 (Jeff Ogden). It = may prove=20 to be one of the most common mosquitoes in the HRM. Its rapid = expansion is=20 amazing, spreading in 13 years to more than twenty states and at least = four=20 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></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_003D_01CC5684.6F096420--
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