Re: Orange aphids

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• Subject: Re: Orange aphids
• From: T* &* M* R*
• Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 17:48:21 +1200
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Glenn Breayley wrote:
> 
> We also have a caterpillar here which developed with the succulent
> asclepiads & will chew straight into them. This also has a crossover
> appetite with Ficus spp, which I thought were untouchable. I couldn't
> believe the first time when I saw one eating a Ficus decora leaf & crapping
> little rubber balls. Hows that for a digestive system !

Glenn

How fascinatingly horrible, but what an interesting example of
adaptation. i gues there must be few plants in the world which SOMETHING
doesn't manage to have a go at.

Cheers

Moira
-- 
Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata, New Zealand. (on the "Ring of Fire" in the SW Pacific).
Lat. 41:16S Long. 174:58E. Climate: Mediterranean/Temperate

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