News about UC Agriculture and Natural Resources
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Published on: September 24, 2009
Gulf Fritillary (Photo by Estelita Levy).
Exotic insect pests get lots of attention in California. Some recent examples are light brown apple moth, Asian citrus psyllid, gypsy moth and olive fruit fly. But here's a story about an insect that was introduced to California some years ago and is a welcome immigrant - the Gulf Fritillary.
Writer Kathy Keatley Garvey of the UC Davis Department of Entomology sent out a press release today about recent sightings in Sacramento and Davis of the striking orange butterfly.
The Gulf Fritillary is a tropical and subtropical butterfly whose range extends from the southern United States to central Argentina. As a spiny orange-and-black caterpillar, it feeds only...
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