Maculinea alcon web site

[David Nash]

Hi everyone,

There has been a bit of discussion lately on the Lepidoptera List 
about Lycaenids parasitising ant colonies, so this might be a good 
time to mention that I've recently completed a web site about the 
research that we're doing at the University of Aarhus in Denmark on 
Maculinea alcon. I've put lots of pictures and details of the life 
cycle into the site, so I hope it will have a wide appeal. The site 
also has a section on our research on fungus-growing ants. Anyone 
who's interested can check out:

	http://www.biology.aau.dk/~biodrn/Atta/

Any comments or questions would be appreciated. I am also working on 
a section of my home page dealing with my previous research on the 
Australian lycaenid butterfly Jalmenus evagoras (The best studied 
butterfly that has a mutualistic interaction with ants) and 
lycaenid-ant interactions generally, but it will probably be a while 
before that's posted.

	Cheers
		David Nash

-------------------------------------David Nash--------------------------------
Dept. of Genetics and Ecology, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Tel: (+45) 89 42 3338; Fax: (+45) 86 12 7191; e-mail: david.nash at biology.aau.dk
                Home page: http://www.biology.aau.dk/~biodrn/
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