[HELICONIUS] Heliconius indoors?

[Jim Mallet]

Yes, the list is still active (although people are not using it).

Chris' message was rejected automatically because he emailed you as 
well, rather than just emailing the list. It's a spam filter to avoid 
circular emails.

Larry Gilbert used to keep Heliconius (H. sara) flying around in a lab 
with no natural light, just mercury vapour tubes.  The plants don't grow 
well in there. These days there are very good grow lights with the right 
spectrum for plants so you could do that more easily, I think.

Best wishes, Jim

On 12/31/1969 7:00 PM, Chris Jiggins wrote:
> Hi Richard
> We keep some of our stock in a CT room as a backup to the greenhouses 
> and they seem to do fine. Although we haven’t maintained a strain that 
> way long term.
> Chris
>
> Professor of Evolutionary Biology (2014)
>
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> *From:* Richard Merrill <merrill at biologie.uni-muenchen.de>
> *Sent:* Monday, February 19, 2024 4:21:12 PM
> *To:* heliconius at ucl.ac.uk <heliconius at ucl.ac.uk>
> *Subject:* [HELICONIUS] Helincius indoors?
> Hi All,
>
> I don’t know if this mailing list is still active. However, if it is I 
> have a question. Does anyone have experience of raising /Heliconius/ 
> inside, i.e. maintaining a stock population with only artificial 
> light? Is it possible, or even worth trying.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Richard
>
>
> Prof. Dr. Richard Merrill
> Division of Evolutionary Biology
> Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München
>
> phone: +49 (0)89 / 2180-74105
> https://www.evol.bio.lmu.de/people/group_leaders/merrill/index.html
> @dickmerrill
>
>
>
>
>
-- 
James Mallet
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/jim
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