From merrill at biologie.uni-muenchen.de Mon Feb 19 16:21:12 2024 From: merrill at biologie.uni-muenchen.de (Richard Merrill) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 17:21:12 +0100 Subject: [HELICONIUS] Helincius indoors? Message-ID: 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-Universit?t, M?nchen phone: +49 (0)89 / 2180-74105 https://www.evol.bio.lmu.de/people/group_leaders/merrill/index.html @dickmerrill -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From j.mallet at ucl.ac.uk Mon Feb 19 19:53:42 2024 From: j.mallet at ucl.ac.uk (Jim Mallet) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 14:53:42 -0500 Subject: [HELICONIUS] Heliconius indoors? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 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) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Richard Merrill > *Sent:* Monday, February 19, 2024 4:21:12 PM > *To:* 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-Universit?t,?M?nchen > > 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: j_mallet.vcf Type: text/vcard Size: 4 bytes Desc: not available URL: