nectar guides and chrysalises

Phil Schappert philjs at mail.utexas.edu
Mon Jun 28 11:05:12 EDT 1999


On 22 Jun 1999 12:05:36 -0700, cbrdar at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (C. Brdar)
wrote:
>I have two questions for you:
>1.  Does anyone know where I might find some good pictures of nectar guides
>on the internet?  I know I've seen some really nice UV photos of butterfly
>nectar flowers before, but I can't remember where.

Hi Corina,

It may have been Peter Kevan's work (see Kevan, P.G., 1972, Floral
Colors in the High Arctic with Reference to Insect-flower Relations
and Pollination, Canadian Journal of Botany 50: 2289-2316) but there
are also some decent UV reflectance photos in Scott, 1986.

Phil

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