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--Apple-Mail-22--445963766 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > Subject: [ValleyNature] evening spectacle of ?scarab beetles, > Greenwich > > JULY 4, 2013 - This evening at 9:15 p.m. Harold Forsyth in > Greenwich phoned me to say he had an insect spectacular going on in > his back yard. I arrived there at about 9:30, and found Harold in > his back yard. At first I couldn't see the beetles, which Harold > said were everywhere in the air and in/on the foliage of maple > trees and other shrubs. Harold had caught a few and put them in a > big jar, and to me they looked like small relatives of June > beetles, i.e., scarab beetles, about a third of the length of a > June beetle and coloured mostly light brown or tan. Harold showed > me how they were obviously attracted to each other and forming > living clumps of 8-10 beetles that were actively mating. I held > the small flashlight on a clump for Harold's camera, and, as it > turned out, he got several quite good photos. He sent four of them > to me: one showing lots of the beetles on the maple foliage and in > flight there, too; one showing a mating clump of beetles; and two > showing a dorsal view of a single beetle. > > Whoever is interested, please ask me off-list for the photos. > Thanks to Harold for being so sharp-eyed, for perseverance with his > camera, and for calling me about this. > > By the way, Harold and I were being devoured by those mosquitoes > that Andrew Hebda predicted would be more abundant than usual, > thanks to the disappearance of the little brown bats. > > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. > _______________________________________________ > Nature mailing list > Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca > http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/ > nature_blomidonnaturalists.ca --Apple-Mail-22--445963766 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; "><div><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>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[ValleyNature] evening spectacle of = ?scarab beetles, Greenwich</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>JULY = 4, 2013</b> - This evening at 9:15 p.m. Harold Forsyth in Greenwich = phoned me to say he had <b>an insect spectacular </b>going on in his = back yard. I arrived there at about 9:30, and found Harold in his = back yard. At first I couldn't see the beetles, which Harold said = were everywhere in the air and in/on the foliage of maple trees and = other shrubs. Harold had caught a few and put them in a big jar, = and to me they looked like <b>small relatives of June beetles, i.e., = scarab beetles</b>, about a third of the length of a June beetle and = coloured mostly light brown or tan. Harold showed me how they were = obviously attracted to each other and forming living clumps of 8-10 = beetles that were actively mating. I held the small flashlight on = a clump for Harold's camera, and, as it turned out, he got several quite = good photos. He sent four of them to me: one showing lots of the = beetles on the maple foliage and in flight there, too; one showing a = mating clump of beetles; and two showing a dorsal view of a single = beetle.</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">Whoever is interested, please ask me off-list for the = photos. Thanks to Harold for being so sharp-eyed, for perseverance = with his camera, and for calling me about this. </font></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"><br></font></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">By the = way, Harold and I were being devoured by those<b> mosquitoes</b> that = Andrew Hebda predicted would be more abundant than usual, thanks to the = disappearance of the little brown bats.</font></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"><br></font></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">Cheers = from Jim in Wolfville.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; = ">_______________________________________________</div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">Nature mailing list</div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a = href=3D"mailto:Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">Nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a = href=3D"http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidonnatu= ralists.ca">http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidon= naturalists.ca</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></body></html>= --Apple-Mail-22--445963766--
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