Diseases of Adult Butterflies

[Nigel]

I don't like to be a spoil-sport but are those garden vegs in Hawaii native
or imported? It's easy to try and play God and determine what should and
shouldn't be where, but the bottom line is that natural selection will have
it's own way in the end............. it always does.
Nigel Venters

Rick Mikula <butrfly at EPIX.NET> wrote in article <36FCE833.656C at epix.net>...
> Rev Chuck wrote:
> > 
> > Also consider consequences to local flora if the released species'
> > larvae just _happened_ to find it tasty, if there was no predation
> > to hold in check.  Importation and release of ANY non-native should
> > be strictly prohibited.
> > 
> 
> 	A fine example of this is Hawaii. To curb the spread of lantana,
> The greater and lesser Lantana butterflies were imported. The leps found
> garden vegetables more to their liking than the target plant. There is
> still a lot of Lantana, plenty of lantana butterflies, and plenty of
havoc
> in gardens.
> 
> Rick Mikula
> 
>