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MYSTERY HERBIVORE OF CHARISMATIC EPIPHYTE DISCOVERED ON ANDROS

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JOURNAL OF THE LEPIDOPTERISTS SOCIETY
Volume 73, Issue 2, Pages 73-77

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LEPIDOPTERISTS SOC

Keywords

Bahamas; bromeliad; caterpillar; Catopsis; Dahana; folivory

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  1. National Science Foundation UMEB program
  2. EPA-STAR fellowship

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While conducting a population ecological study of a distinctive epiphytic bromeliad, we witnessed a substantial amount of folivory in some populations on Andros, Bahamas. Finding two caterpillars on damaged plants, we reared a species of moth previously recorded only from Cuba. We report here on the damage to Catopsis berteroniana plants by larvae of Dahana cubana, and conclude from our data that both plant size and location (site) influence the amount of damage that plants experienced.

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