cocaine feeders

[Neil Jones]

In article <38E12AB4.9DB7E2EC at bangor.ac.uk>
           bsu103 at bangor.ac.uk "jamie o'connell" writes:

> 
> Please could someone assist in my project be passing on information about
> butterflys which live and feed on the Erythroxylum coca or its close
> relatives.
> 
> e-mail bsu103 at bangor.ac.uk
> 
> Thanks very much
> 
> Jamie O'Connell

The larvae of butterfly species in the genus Agrias feed on plants of this
genus.
I do have concerns that GM technlogy is apparently being developed to
kill the Coca plants. I hope for the sake of the butterflies that
the ecological effects of releasing such novel organisms are fully
assesed FIRST.

-- 
Neil Jones- Neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk http://www.nwjones.demon.co.uk/
"At some point I had to stand up and be counted. Who speaks for the
butterflies?" Andrew Lees - The quotation on his memorial at Crymlyn Bog
National Nature Reserve