Its wings look like black velvet ... and sharpens it to a point. He uses it to pin his butterfly specimen to a large leaf about waist high, then retreats to watch from a rock outcropping.

His father pinned his catch in a frame, wings spread ... His network of butterfly agents shipped him as many as 50,000 ...

We position the open wings on a flat board so they'll remain in the spread position once the butterfly has dried. Then we stick a label to the pin, indicating exactly where the specimen was ...