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NOTES ON AN UNUSUAL HABITAT FOR OVERWINTERING EUROPEAN CRANE FLY LARVAE (DIPTERA: TIPULIDAE) IN NEWFOUNDLAND1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Ray F. Morris
Affiliation:
Agriculture Canada Research Station, PO Box 7098, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada A1E 3Y3

Extract

On 2 April 1986, while removing an accumulation of mosses from the roof of a covered picnic table near a home on Brookfield Road, St. John's (Fig. 1), several hundred larvae (leatherjackets) of the European crane fly, Tipula paludosa Meigen, were found overwintering in the moss between the slots of the asphalt shingles (Fig. 2). During the period 1971–1985 a heavy growth of mosses had become established in the slots between the shingles. Sufficient organic matter, together with particles of soil and sand, had accumulated in these slots to support the mosses, which gradually spread outward to the flat surfaces of the shingles (Fig. 1).

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Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1986

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