Join the Miami Blue Crew

[Anne Kilmer]

If you wish to become involved in the Miami Blue Butterfly restoration 
project, email Bob Parcelles <ParcBob at aol.com> to be added to our 
mailing list. Or click on this link.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MBBRP/join

If you simply wish to subscribe to correspondence, click here.

http://groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/MBBRP

This will mean that you can't go look at files, photos etc., but it will 
also mean that you don't have to be a YAHOO group member.

Make sure that you go to the YAHOO page, and set your preferences to "no 
spam" unless you want your email address handed out freely to everyone 
who wants it.

For other useful information about the MBBRP and the Miami Blue, see the 
MBBRP web site.

Jose Muniz <jmuniz at amazingbutterflies.com> is the assistant Task Force 
Director and coordinator of the South Florida effort.

To report a Miami Blue Butterfly sighting, call David Fine at (561) 441-4873

To donate funds to the project, go to
  http://www.tils-ttr.org/donate.html


Read about the project at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naturepotpourri/
Check out our links:
http://www.wildlifewebsite.com/miamiblue/

If you want a t-shirt, banner or poster, go to this page
http://www.risingdove.com/miamiblue/images.asp

Websites useful in the study of the Miami Blue Butterfly

Miami Blue, Hemiargus thomasi bethunebakeri (now Cyclargus thomasi 
bethunebakeri)
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/bflyusa/usa/248.htm

Federal register
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2002_register&docid=02-36-filed.pdf

Cardiospermum halicacabum and C. corindum
http://www.hear.org/pier/cahal.htm

http://florawww.eeb.uconn.edu/acc_num/200100017.html

http://www.pre1900prints.com/Botanical/Curtis1049.htm

http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/dictionary/tico/c.html

Caesalpinea bonduc

http://www.plantatlas.usf.edu/images.asp?plantID=3340#

See also Cardiospermum corindum.
See also Pithecellobium spp in above reference. The Miami Blue is said 
to use Blackbead and cat claw as larval hosts. It may also use various 
weedy leguminous vines, such as Galactia spp. and Clitoria maritima, 
according to Mark Minno.



Happy gardening, and may all your blues be butterflies.
Anne Kilmer
Vice-Chairman-Operations/Task Force Director
Miami Blue Butterfly Restoration Project
Chief
Miami Blue Crew
<viceroy at gate.net>.



 
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