[HELICONIUS] Artificial Diet for Heliconius

[John Reese]

Thank you for the correction.
And, MANY, many years ago I published a paper on rearing black cutworms on
artificial diet.  It was later produced and sold by a company.  Please let
me know if you have any interest in getting a pdf of that paper, or want the
reference.
John

John Reese
Department of Entomology
Waters Hall
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506-4004
jreese at ksu.edu
785 532-4708

> -----Original Message-----
> From: heliconius-bounces at ucl.ac.uk [mailto:heliconius-bounces at ucl.ac.uk]
> On Behalf Of Jamie Walters
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 12:10 PM
> To: Chris Jiggins
> Cc: heliconius at ucl.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: [HELICONIUS] Artificial Diet for Heliconius
> 
> Just to make a quick correction,  Chip is at the University of Kansas
> (in Lawrence), not Kansas State U (in Manhattan).  this is an easy
> mistake to make...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> jamie
> 
> On Apr 19, 2012, at 10:01 AM, Chris Jiggins wrote:
> 
> > Dear all
> >
> > We have just been in conversation with Chip Taylor at Kansas State
> University, regarding the possibility of developing an artificial diet
> for Heliconius.  After talking about the success of his rearing protocol
> for monarchs, I am convinced that this has the potential to represent a
> major change in what we can do with Heliconius as a genetic and
> developmental system.  He has offered to work on developing a similar
> diet for Heliconiines - either with H. charithonia or Agraulis, and
> estimates that this might take 5-6 months.  In order to do this he is
> asking for some financial support to cover student stipends and
> consumables.  This would be initially $5000 USD, although the ultimate
> cost depends somewhat on how successful the initial experiments are.
> >
> > I intend to contribute some funds to try and make this happen, but
> since this has the potential to benefit all of us I wonder if any other
> members of the community are interested to also contribute.  If it were
> shared across 4-5 labs the cost would really be minimal.
> >
> > Let me know if you are interested
> >
> > Cheers
> > Chris
> >
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