Butterfly house?

[Grkovich, Alex]

Try visiting the place here in Massachusetts north of Boston (I forget the
name of the town), for example, and just have it look around. It'll turn
your stomach.

I have for some time wondered how one controls the spiders without
"controlling" the butterflies.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Neil Jones [SMTP:neil at NWJONES.DEMON.CO.UK]
> Sent:	Friday, March 29, 2002 10:40 AM
> To:	leps-l at lists.yale.edu
> Subject:	Re: Butterfly house?
> 
> On Friday 29 March 2002 12:53 pm, you wrote:
> > They're torture chambers for butterflies. I've never seen such evidence
> of
> > predation on butterflies by spiders as inside a "butterfly house"; of
> > course, "collecting" is not allowed inside, is it?
> >
> 
> I'm not sure that this is valid.
> 
> 1. You would see more spider predation where there were a lot more 
> butterflies. This isn't evidence that it is higher. It may just be a 
> manifestation of desity dependent predation.
> 
> 2. I make a point of visiting butterfly houses where ever I travel
> Only once did I really encounter a place where spiders had been allowed to
> 
> flourish. There are effective control measures and these are usually used
> 
> 
> --
> Neil Jones- Neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk http://www.butterflyguy.com/
> NOTE NEW WEB ADDRESS
> "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
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