Somerville wrote the following sentence in his second novel, The Shape of Her : " Like a
lepidopterist mounting a toughskinned insect with a too blunt pin he screwed himself into her." Established in 1994 by the UK- based monthly magazine, Literary Review , the award is given to " crude, tasteless, and often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in contemporary novels, and to discourage it." Not that Somerville is complaining.
--ROBERT MICHAEL PYLE, a
lepidopterist and author, most recently, of Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place (2007), in Orion (July-Aug.
The butterfly house fell into disrepair after the death of
lepidopterist David Crozier, the volunteer who managed and maintained it for the Council.
The piece is called Butterfly, 2005, and it conflates the passions of the sports fan and the
lepidopterist. But the detachment of Jordan's limbs from his body and their dull color is unsettling; rigor mortis has set in.
Hurt plays Alan Osborne, a big-shot
lepidopterist and one-man Make-a-Wish Foundation who very reluctantly agrees to take 10-year-old Pete Carlton (Marc Donato) to Central America in search of the rare insect of the title.
In the rest of the book, he and
lepidopterist Brock present a handy, fully Illustrated guidebook to butterflies.
Nabokov was a self-taught
lepidopterist who did valuable studies on New World butterflies.
These two books might plausibly have been published as a single work, a kind of stereopticon: Johnson and Coates on Nabokov as a
lepidopterist who wrote novels, stories, and literary studies of Gogol and Pushkin; Boyd and Pyle on Nabokov as a writer who was a
lepidopterist.
"A Big Yellow Butterfly" tells the story of a solitary mother and her unique backward son, an amateur
lepidopterist who is himself life a butterfly - always in motion, on the run in the fields, looking for adored insects, contemplating them with rapture for hours.
A significant part of the exhibit shows Nuyda's life work as a
lepidopterist. About 110 photographs of rare butterflies from his collection are mounted in matte silver frames.
Neil Bjorklund, photographer,
lepidopterist and tropical adventurer, will give a presentation titled "Chasing Butterflies in Paradise, A Visit to Costa Rica" during the Monday meeting of the Eugene-Springfield chapter of the North American Butterfly Association.
He also made serious contributions as a
lepidopterist and chess composer.
lepidopterist - an entomologist who specializes in the collection and study of butterflies and moths