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Highly Infectious Viral Disease, 'Kind of Like Ebola'
It's something you don't see every day. I'm used to seeing Gulf Fritillary chrysalids hanging from our passionflower vine (Passiflora) but this thing hanging from our African blue basil was not a chrysalid. "It's a dead caterpillar killed by an infectious virus disease (polyhedrosis)," said...
This is a dead caterpillar killed by an infectious virus disease (Polyhedrosis), as identified by UC Davis butterfly expert Art Shapiro. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
