Investigations showed that the poisoning resulted from eating
lupines tainted with contaminated water at the wedding party in Assiut's village of Nazlat Al Serqana, private newspaper Al Watan reported.
Staff from DEC's Herkimer office now manage the site, and work closely with partners to expand
lupines here and support frosted elfins.
Working at the ARS Poisonous Plant Research Laboratory in Logan, Utah, chemist Richard Keeler (now retired) started to identify alkaloids in
lupines that contributed to the onset of CCS.
Could an entomopathogenic nematode protect bush
lupine by killing rootfeeding ghost moth caterpillars?
In addition, the mission blue lays its eggs on only three species of
lupine, upon which the larvae feed after hatching.
A few miles farther on,
lupines blanketed entire hillsides and arroyos, the ground tinted as if a cloud shedding blue shadow had drifted over.
The preserve's most famous resident is the endangered Karner blue butterfly, a small silvery-blue insect dependent on the wild blue
lupine that grows only in dry, sandy clearings.
This endangered insect feeds on perennial
lupines in coastal and montane habitat on the San Bruno Mountain and in the Marin Headlands in northern California.
He reported that both
lupines and butterflies were "still doing as fine under those old gnarled pines along the railroad as they did ninety years ago." But in time, the butterfly's fortunes declined.
Bliss (1999) entitled "Comparative physiological ecology of
lupinesShe and her assistants watched the insects' behavior inside areas with
lupines and outside such prime habitat.
Other harmful plant toxins include alkaloid compounds found in
lupines (members of the pea family), poison-hemlock, and various tobacco species, as well as larkspur.