[HELICONIUS] Uitlandse kapellen: exotic bugs in strange places

[James Mallet]

On 05/06/2015 08:27, John Turner <J.R.G.Turner at leeds.ac.uk> wrote:

When we were breeding Heliconius melpomene continuously in the 
greenhouses here in Leeds
(1980s roughly), there was reportedly a fairly steady stream of the 
hybrid phenotypes,
as well as the pure Belem race, being reported or presented to the Leeds 
City Museum.
(We never did afford to put netting on all the greenhouse ventilators!)

Not only that, but a University acquaintance at that period once showed 
me a photograph
of an undoubted Dryas iulia that she had photographed in her garden in 
suburban Leeds.
A long way from our greenhouse in the centre and (more decisively) we 
were not breeding
them there and never did!

Came off a banana boat at Hull docks?

Cheers everyone

John R.G. Turner
Emeritus Professor
Visiting Research Fellow (School of Biology)
Visiting Research Fellow (School of Languages, Cultures & Societies—French)
University of Leeds

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