Bait stories and B.S.

[Jim Taylor]

Trish:
With a president like Clinton, what else can we talk about?
Jim Taylor
----- Original Message -----
From: Trisha Norberg <mariposa at trespass.net>
To: <NGD at WPO.NERC.AC.UK>; <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: Bait stories and B.S.


> Can we stop talking about poop please?   We've gotten the point, there's
really
> nowhere else to go with it except to get gross.  Please chill on the
topic,
> okay?
>
>
> > Here in the UK too. Chalkhill Blue (L:ysandra coridon) seems to very
> > much favour dog dung and can be so numerous on it as to almost obscure
> > the dung from sight. I have also seen Comma (Polygonia c-album) on dog
> > dung. I'm sure other species as well. Purple Emperor (Apatura iris) on
> > carrion.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Nick Greatorex-Davies
> >
> >
> > Mr J Nick Greatorex-Davies
> > (Butterfly Monitoring Scheme co-ordinator)
> > Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
> > Monks Wood
> > Abbots Ripton
> > Huntingdon
> > Cambridgeshire PE17 2LS  UK
> >
> > Tel: (+44) (0) 1487 773 381
> > Fax: (+44) (0) 1487 773 467
> > E-mail: n.greatorex-davies at ite.ac.uk
> >
> > >>> "DR. JAMES ADAMS" <JADAMS at em.daltonstate.edu> 12/10/99 16:15:54
> > >>>
> > Anthony C. wrote:
> >
> > > By the way having
> > > been involved with lepidoptera for 45 years I have never observed
> > butterflies on
> > > carrion or dung. I know it happens but seems more relate to the
> > tropics?
> >
> > Not at all.  I've seen numerous butterflies visiting both dung and
> > carrion in the U.S.  In KS, where I spent many a year, I recall
> > taking a couple of great pictures of a Painted Lady (Vanessa
> > cardui) on some dog dung, and the same day there was another
> > pile that was completely covered by Hackberry butterflies
> > (Asterocampa celtis).  Red-Spotted Purples (Limenitis arthemis
> > astyanax) seem particularly fond of both dung and carrion here in
> > Georgia.
> >
> > James
> >
> > Dr. James K. Adams
> > Dept. of Natural Science and Math
> > Dalton State College
> > 213 N. College Drive
> > Dalton, GA  30720
> > Phone: (706)272-4427; fax: (706)272-2533
> > U of Michigan's President James Angell's
> >   Secret of Success: "Grow antennae, not horns"
> >
>
>
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