Is this a big newly found colony of Miami Blues?

[Paul Cherubini]

Subject:  Ants and Miami Blue butterflies
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 06:35:12 +0100
From: Anne Kilmer <viceroy at GATE.NET>
Organization: Butterfly Coalition
To: ENTOMO-L at listserv.uoguelph.ca

We're working on a project to restore the Miami Blue Butterfly,
Cyclargus thomasi bethunebakeri, which is tended by a species of
Camponotus ant.

On a recent visit to the Keys we found one area of Nickerbean full of
larvae, each tended by about three ants. There were many eggs, and many
flying adults.

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Anne Kilmer
Mayo, Ireland
and South Florida

 
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