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Talking Caterpillars

Introduce Jen Weeks and her study system. Pictures of the caterpillars, adult butterflies, Cotesia wasps, the ants, etc.

"To Tend or Not to Tend: The Choice Varies in an Ant-Butterfly Mutualism" -- an article about the research of Dr. Jen Weeks.

Photos of Hemiargus isola butterflies, from the Butterflies of Southeastern Arizona web site (with permission)

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From left to right: adult male, adult female, adult male underside.

caterpillar pix
ant pix
Cotesia pix

next: what Weeks found out

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