[HELICONIUS] Uitlandse kapellen: exotic bugs in strange places

[James Mallet]

Dryas are now established in Thailand, where apparently they had been 
used for release at weddings.  See:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4132105/

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Jim
> 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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