[leps-talk] MALE x FEMALE emergence

[Nigel Venters]

I thought symbiosis gave benefits to both creatures in the
relationship...parasitism seems a little out of the frame? I suppose you
could say that parasitism helps keeps the numbers of any species down to a
level that the environment is not damaged irreversibly by huge hordes of
hungry larvae...in effect a benefit to the species in the long run....but is
this symbiosis?
Nigel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Parcelles,Jr." <rjparcelles at yahoo.com>
To: "Anne Kilmer" <viceroy at GATE.NET>; <drdn at mail.utexas.edu>
Cc: <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: [leps-talk] MALE x FEMALE emergence


>
> --- Anne Kilmer <viceroy at GATE.NET> wrote:
>
> > The ant/butterfly relationship, incidentally, is mutualism rather
> > than
> > symbiosis.
> > Cheers
> > Anne Kilmer
> > May all your blues be butterflies
>
>
> Just would like to point there are several types of symbiosis of
> which mutualism is only one . commensalism is another and i guess
> technically speaking parasitism is another.  fascinatining subject
> but helps if we are all on the same page.
>
> bob
>
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