Red Admirals on track

[Heath, Fred]

Paul of course made the quote sound a lot worse than it was. The sentence
actually reads: "Shipping Red Admirals, Giant Swallowtails, Gulf
Fritillaries and Zebra (Heliconians) is particularly inappropriate because
they are not naturally found over much of the United States".  It is not
clear to me why Red Admirals are included in this list because they are
widespread over the U.S (the government's Northern Prairie Wildlife Research
Center website shows them as spotty in the SE, although this may be simply
an anomaly of the data collection) and maybe shouldn't have been included
with the other species. However, Paul's leaving out of the other species
suggests that the Opler et al singled out the Red Admiral which obviously
wasn't the case. 
----Regards, Fred. 

	
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Paul Cherubini [SMTP:monarch at saber.net]
> Sent:	Tuesday, May 15, 2001 9:03 AM
> To:	leps-l at lists.yale.edu
> Subject:	Re: Red Admirals on track
> 
> Martha Rosett Lutz wrote:
>  
> > Do Red Admirals like Gatorade?  Would they get any important nutrients
> from
> > it? 
> 
> Yes, commercial butterfly farmers commonly use Gatorade to feed the
> butterflies
> prior to shipping them off to brides. Speaking of butterfly releases, 
> the recent reports of large northward movements of Red Admirals in the
> southern, central and northern USA plus into southern Canada reminds
> me of a curious statement on the NABA website about releases
> authored by Paul Opler, Bob Pyle, Jeff Glassberg, and Jim Tuttle  
> These authors wrote:
> 
> "Shipping Red Admirals, is particularly inappropriate
> because they are not naturally found over much of the United States."
> 
> These scientists are at the top of their field so why do they make
> statements
> like this?
> 
> Paul Cherubini
> 
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