Social Butterfly + another angle on Common names

[Chris J. Durden]

>Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 07:27:10 -0600
>To: Stelenes at aol.com
>From: "Chris J. Durden" <drdn at mail.utexas.edu>
>Subject: Re: Social Butterfly + another angle on Common names
>In-Reply-To: <dc.aa3381.25b0b351 at aol.com>
>
>At 12:13  14/01/00 EST, you wrote:
> 
>  To Illustrate this we are Homo 
>>sapiens (Linneaus, 1758), if Linneaus first described us to taxonomy in
1758. 
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>Yes he did, and the next species in his book is *Homo troglodytus* which
we know now as CHIMPANZEE. Linne was ahead of his time, almost 100 years
before Darwin. (Ah - the stuff threads are made of).
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>  I doubt the Eucheira socialis butterfly is social in that sense, but 
>>someone more familiar with the species' behavior might comment.
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>Yes it is. Adults hatch in the tent, fly out during the day and roost
inside the tent at night. I have found up to 13 adults in the tent along
with pupae and larvae (in Sinaloa). Larvae crawl out during the night to
feed and repair the tent. By day they ring the inside of the tent opening
with their jaws, threatening any parasitic wasps that try to enter.
>..........Chris Durden
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>   Doug 
>>Dawn.
>