Compositae/insect mystery

[Hugh Wilson]

A query on alta-vista using

wildflower florida garberia

produces, 1st page listed, a photo with another insect

On 10 Dec 98 at 13:29, Greg J. Schmidt <schmidtg at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU>
wrote:

> Date:          Thu, 10 Dec 1998 13:29:28 -0500
> Reply-to:      "Greg J. Schmidt" <schmidtg at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU>
> From:          "Greg J. Schmidt" <schmidtg at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU>
> Organization:  UTK Botany
> Subject:       Re: Compositae/insect mystery
> To:            Multiple recipients of list TAXACOM

> The plant appears to be Garberia heterophylla, a woody relative of
> Liatris ('Blazing Star') endemic to Florida.
>
>
>
> John Nelson wrote:
>
> > TH 10 Dec 1100h
> >
> > FRIENDS
> >
> >     Another mystery plant, this one for the synantherologists...Don't
> > know exactly where the color slides were taken:
> >
> >    habit and closeup at: http://cricket.biol.sc.edu/mystery-a.JPG
> >                          http://cricket.biol.sc.edu/mystery-b.JPG
> >
> >     I believe these to be cultivated here in South Carolina. The
> > plants are close to Eupatorieae, maybe close to Sachsia? Anthers
> > without basal appendages; foliage finely atomiferous, but a dried
> > piece of the plant is not aromatic.
> >
> >     Note also the colorful insects on the flowers. Eating them?
> >
> >         Thanks JOHN
> >
> >     (My thanks to Tim Mousseau for scanning the slides)
> >
> > John B. Nelson
> > Curator of the Herbarium (USCH)
> > Department of Biological Sciences
> > University of South Carolina
> > Columbia SC 29208
> >
> > nelson at sc.edu
> > 803-777-8196 phone
> > 803-777-4002 fax
> >
> > Non totum difficile est, sed nihil facile.
>

Hugh D. Wilson
Texas A&M University - Biology
h-wilson at tamu.edu (409-845-3354)
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/Wilson/homepage.html