FW: drowning in frass

[Gall, Lawrence]

Hi folks, thought this image from Victor DeMasi from last weekend of a Pipevine Swallowtail (Battus philenor) taken in Redding CT could be of interest.  A decent clutch of philenor seems to have popped up on Vic’s property this summer.

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Lawrence F. Gall, Ph.D.

Head, Computer Systems Office
Informatics Manager, Entomology
Executive Editor, Peabody Publications
Lepidoptera Section Editor, Zootaxa

Peabody Museum of Natural History
P.O. Box 208118, Yale University
New Haven, CT 06520-8118 USA
http://www.peabody.yale.edu

email: lawrence.gall at yale.edu
phone: 1-203-432-9892
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From: Victor DeMasi [mailto:victormonarch at yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2010 5:44 PM
To: Gall, Lawrence
Subject: drowning in frass

[paraphrased email]:

Hey; got a bunch of these things eating my Aristolochia (sp?) vines; at least 100 -whatyathink; Victor


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