zebra longwing

[Semjase]

>Subject: Re: zebra longwing
>From: viceroy at GATE.NET (Anne Kilmer)
>Date: 4/19/99 7:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time
>Message-id: <371BDC95.B658820B at gate.net>
>
>My bet is that these bugs were released in California. We have plenty of
>them where I am; they chain to sleep outside my bedroom window
>sometimes. 
>They are easily raised in captivity. 
>When a butterfly is easy to buy,and host plants are easily found and
>grown, the conclusion is predictable. 
>Logic does require a third inclusive premise ... perhaps that people
>love to grow and release beautiful butterflies.  
> Since you ask. 
>Anne Kilmer

Perhaps this may also explain them being seen more in the San Diego
microcimates than the harsher areas further north?

S.