Paragliding after butterflies
The indomitable lepidopterist Torben Larsen, whose book Hazards of Butterfly Collecting was the subject of this review, has been continuing his butterflying adventures.
A few days ago, he e-mailed some recent installments of his long-running series Hazards of Butterfly Collecting that are regularly published in the Entomologists’ Record and Journal of Variation.
Torben has been involved in the capture of a Kallima species, an endemic Asian butterfly, in the middle of London (it turned out that the butterfly had escaped from the Regent’s Park Zoo), visited a "lost" mountain near the border of Jordan and Saudi Arabia to see Pseudophilotes jordanicus, whose only known habitat spans a flower patch of about 50x100 m at an altitude of 1700 m, and paraglided in Ghana with his butterfly net in his hand (but, alas, couldn’t catch anything).
I am looking forward to Torben’s next Hazards book.
1 comment:
This is excellent. Our days standing in mucky swamps waiting for the passing dragonfly doesn't even compare to paragliding for leps. What's next, will he bungee jump for brushfoots?
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