Foraging Behavior of the Blue Morpho and Other Tropical Butterflies: The Chemical and Electrophysiological Basis of Olfactory Preferences and the Role of Color

Table 1

Butterfly species that visited landing platforms during Bioassay I.

Scientific name	Common name	Diet	Origin	Number of Landings
Morpho achilles	Banded Morpho	fruit	Central America	1
Hamadryas amphinome	Blue Cracker	fruit	Central America	3
Morpho helenor	Blue Morpho	fruit	Central America	319
Parthenos sylvia	Clipper	flower/fruit	Philippines	98
Neptis hylas	Common Sailor	fruit	Southeast Asia	14
Hypolimnas bolina	Great Eggfly	flower	Southeast Asia	10
Catonephele mexicana	Grecian Shoemaker	fruit	Central America	4
Eueides vibilia	Vibilia Longwing	flower	Central America	3
Kallima paralekta	Indian Leaf	fruit	Southeast Asia	1
Dryas julia	Julia	flower	Florida	14
Cethosia cyane	Leopard Lacewing	flower/fruit	Southeast Asia	2
Parides iphidamas	Pink Cattleheart	flower	Central America	1
Heraclides thoas	Thoas Swallowtail	flower	Central America	13
Papilio pilumnus	Three-tailed Swallowtail	flower	Central America	1
Idea leuconoe	Tree Nymph	flower	Southeast Asia	17
Myscelia cyaniris	Tropical Blue Wave	flower	Central America	4
Morpho polyphemus	White Morpho	fruit	Central America	1
Heliconius charithonia	Zebra Longwing	flower	Florida	1

(Photos of these and other species found in the Butterfly Rainforest can be viewed at http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/butterflies/guide/.)