Palatability of North American Model and Mimic Butterflies to Caged Mice
Brower JV and Brower LP. 1962. Palatability of North American Model and Mimic Butterflies to Caged Mice. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society. 15(1):23-24
INTRODUCTION: During August and September of 1954, preliminary experiments were conducted to investigate the palatability of model and mimic butterflies to individually caged Peromyscus leu copus (Rafinesque), a deer mouse. This work was carried out in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina, where the presumably unpalatable Battus philenor (Linne) and some of its supposed mimics were relatively abundant. Among the butterflies tested were: B. philenor, model; Papilio troilus Linne and Limenitis astyanax (Fabricius), mimics; and the male of P. glaucus Linne, the male of Speyeria diana (Cramer), S. aphrodite (Fabricius), and S. cybele (Fabricius), here called non-mimetic butterflies (i. e., butterflies which are not involved in mimicry, either as models or mimics).
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Brower, Jane; Brower, Lincoln
- Units
- GRSM
- Keywords
- animal behavior, APHN, Appalachian Highlands Network, Battus philendor, butterflies, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, GRSM, Insecta, Lepidoptera, Limenitis astyanax, mimicry, Papilio glaucus, Papilio troilus, Peromyscus leucopus, pipevine swallowtail, red-spotted purple, SER, Southeast Region, Speyeria aphrodite, Speyeria cybele, Speyeria diana