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--Apple-Mail-23-720107196 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Begin forwarded message: > From: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Date: June 23, 2013 2:29:28 PM ADT > To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca>, Andy & Lelia Dean > <aadean@ns.sympatico.ca>, Richard Stern <sternrichard@gmail.com>, > Rick Whitman <dendroica.caerulescens@gmail.com>, Angus MacLean > <angusmcl@ns.sympatico.ca> > Subject: [ValleyNature] woolly aphids in residential Wolfville > > JUNE 23, 2013 - Today at Wolfville's 51 Kent Ave. along the > sidewalk we found an ornamental shrub with one branch festooned > with a carpet of woolly aphids of some kind. These insects belong > in the family Eriosomatidae, a family of both woolly aphids and > gall-forming aphids (or just gall aphids). These are relatives of > real aphids that have reduced or absent cornicles and complicated > life-cycles involving altenrate host plants as well as alternation > of asexual and bisexual generations. I read that the protective > wool-like white wax, which appears to be in strands sticking out > from the individual insects, occurs only on the immature stages, > i.e., mostly the various instars of the nymphs. > > I don't know what kind of shrub this was, but it has opposite > leaves and currently immature green fruits, which look like they > will be berries. > > I took a few photos, but I am inept at this, and I wonder if ANDY > DEAN or Rick Whitman or Richard Stern or Angus MacLean, in their > spare time??, could find this one branch which is really obvious, > and get a decent macro photo of what a dense group of these woolly > aphids looks like? (Or, of course, everyone interested should just > Google "woolly aphids" or "Eriosomatidae" and find some > illustrations etc. there.) > > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. > _______________________________________________ > Nature mailing list > Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca > http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/ > nature_blomidonnaturalists.ca --Apple-Mail-23-720107196 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; "> <br><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">"James W. Wolford" <<a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</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 23, 2013 2:29:28 PM = 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">Nature BNS <<a = href=3D"mailto:nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a>>, Andy & Lelia Dean <<a = href=3D"mailto:aadean@ns.sympatico.ca">aadean@ns.sympatico.ca</a>>, = Richard Stern <<a = href=3D"mailto:sternrichard@gmail.com">sternrichard@gmail.com</a>>, = Rick Whitman <<a = href=3D"mailto:dendroica.caerulescens@gmail.com">dendroica.caerulescens@gm= ail.com</a>>, Angus MacLean <<a = href=3D"mailto:angusmcl@ns.sympatico.ca">angusmcl@ns.sympatico.ca</a>><= /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>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[ValleyNature] woolly aphids in = residential Wolfville</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; 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"><b>JUNE 23, 2013 </b>- Today = at Wolfville's 51 Kent Ave. along the sidewalk we found an ornamental = shrub with one branch festooned with a carpet of <b>woolly aphids</b> of = some kind. These insects belong in the <b>family = Eriosomatidae</b>, a family of both woolly aphids and gall-forming = aphids (or just gall aphids). These are relatives of real aphids = that have reduced or absent cornicles and complicated life-cycles = involving altenrate host plants as well as alternation of asexual and = bisexual generations. I read that the protective wool-like white = wax, which appears to be in strands sticking out from the individual = insects, occurs only on the immature stages, i.e., mostly the various = instars of the nymphs.</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 don't know <b>what kind of shrub</b> this was, but = it has opposite leaves and currently immature green fruits, which look = like they will be berries.</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 took a few<b> photos, but</b> I am inept at this, = and I wonder if ANDY DEAN or Rick Whitman or Richard Stern or Angus = MacLean, in their spa