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David Antony Millard dmillard at mail.utexas.edu
Tue Feb 23 00:21:27 EST 1999


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> Subject: Danaus plexippus feeding on bindweed
> Date: 23 Feb 1999 02:58:30 GMT
> From: Riley Rice <Riley.Rice at att.net>
> To: leps-l at lists.yale.edu
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> I've harbored this secret information for years (procrastination, that's
> all). I was browsing this forum for the first time and thought I might
> unload.
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> In summer, 1991, near Dayton, Ohio (blackberry season - does that narrow
> it down?), I came across a D. plexippus caterpillar feeding on bindweed
> alongside a dirt road. The little guy was definitely out of its first
> instar (about 1 cm in length), so it was managing to survive OK (I saw
> no milkweed within easy view). I took it home and placed it on my
> milkweed. It did OK for a while then disappeared.
>
> Has anyone heard of such a food plant for this species?
>
> --
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> Riley Rice
> http://home.att.net/~riley.rice/index.html
>

Are you sure it wasn't one of the milkweed vines, like Matelea or Cynanchum?  Bindweed is in an entirely unrelated family (Convolvulaceae).

Regards, David Millard

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