From owner-drosophila@net.bio.net Tue Feb 13 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!hawaii.edu!hampton From: hampton@hawaii.edu (Hampton Carson) Newsgroups: bionet.drosophila Subject: natural breeding sites of North American Drosophila Date: 14 Feb 1996 12:21:46 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 15 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Over the years, I have spent a lot of time searching out the natural oviposition sites of endemic drosophilids and I know the people at Leeds are gathering ecological information on this subject. In a arecent paper on the pollination biology of the Arrow Arum (Peltandra virginica) of Eastern U. S. Joe Patt and his co-workers at Rutgers (Amer. Jour. Bot. 82:1230-1240 1995) have documented that Drsophila subpalustris oviposits on and comnpletes development on the staminate inflorescences of this species. As the drosophilid is not involved in pollination, not much point is made in the paper about this and it could be easily overlooked by ecology-minded drosophilists. With aloha to all, Hamp Carson .