The larvae feed on various herbaceous plants, including Thapsia, Ferrula, Crithmum, Ligustrum, Laserpitium and Foeniculum species.
Thapsia |
He began collaborating with Dr. Soren Christensen, a natural products chemist, at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, and the first scientist to isolate thapsigargin from the plant Thapsia garganica, a poisonous weed that grows wild in areas of the Mediterranean.