American mistletoe

[Harriett Wright]

I finally found my reference to the mistletoe-eating hairstreak--a book
called Florida's Fabulous Butterflies.  It gives the range of Atlides
halesus as "South-Central Florida northward through the panhandle and west
to California".  Don't know whether Palm Beach County would be too far
south.  The Univ of Fla butterfly page --
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/scripts/htmlgen.exe?DOCUMENT_UW057 -- gives the
southern limit of the "Great Blue Hairstreak" (no latin name given) as
north of Tampa.
Harriett
Tampa

Anne Kilmer wrote:

> Great purple hairstreak; Atlides halesus?
> Makes a good swear.
> I'd love to know their proper range, and whether we should be watching
> for them in the western bounds of Palm Beach County... where there is
> plenty of mistletoe.