Ten Lepidoptera Mounted
or butterflies if you prefer:
A person who catches and collects, studies, or simply observes lepidoptera (members of an order encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies, skipper butterflies, and moth-butterflies) are called Lepidopterists.
Famous lepidopterists include William Stephen Atkinson, Jean-Baptiste Boisduval, Bernard d'Abrera, Robert Denno, Henry Doubleday, Henry Edwards, Edmund Brisco Ford, Frederick William Frohawk, Walter Gieseking, Frederick DuCane Godman, William Jacob Holland, Johann Siegfried Hufnagel, Julian Jumalon, Napoleon M. Kheil, Bernard Kettlewell, Michael Majerus, Vladimir Nabokov, L. Hugh Newman, Princess Olga of Greece, Walter Rothschild, Camille Saint-Saëns, Otto Staudinger, James William Tutt, Geoffrey de Havilland, Edward Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne and Sergeevich Zolotarenko.
Not from around here...
These are mounted specimens from Peru, France, China, Kenya, El Salvador and Cameroon.
A person who catches and collects, studies, or simply observes lepidoptera (members of an order encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies, skipper butterflies, and moth-butterflies) are called Lepidopterists.
Famous lepidopterists include William Stephen Atkinson, Jean-Baptiste Boisduval, Bernard d'Abrera, Robert Denno, Henry Doubleday, Henry Edwards, Edmund Brisco Ford, Frederick William Frohawk, Walter Gieseking, Frederick DuCane Godman, William Jacob Holland, Johann Siegfried Hufnagel, Julian Jumalon, Napoleon M. Kheil, Bernard Kettlewell, Michael Majerus, Vladimir Nabokov, L. Hugh Newman, Princess Olga of Greece, Walter Rothschild, Camille Saint-Saëns, Otto Staudinger, James William Tutt, Geoffrey de Havilland, Edward Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne and Sergeevich Zolotarenko.
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