Butterfly Conservation Press Release

Anne Kilmer viceroy at gate.net
Wed Sep 27 18:59:06 EDT 2000



"DR. JAMES ADAMS" wrote:
> 
> Neil Jones passed on the following from a press release:
> 
> >  Species such as the Gatekeeper and Speckled Wood have moved from the
> >  fringes to colonise places such as Hyde and Regents Park, The Tower
> >  of London . . .
> 
> That's really amazing!!  I had no idea that butterflies have started
> colonizing buildings!  Must be a *lot* of indoor plants and windows
> in the Tower of London . . .
> 
>                 James
> 
Tortoise shells, Peacocks, maybe a Red Admiral or two ... wouldn't have
expected a Gatekeeper to go indoors much. 
You must remember that it's raining outdoors, mostly, in the British
Isles, which makes indoors more appealing to the butterflies, as to
everybody else. :-)
Anne Kilmer
South Florida
> 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
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