You’ll find this small, yellow butterfly among the pages of Endemic Butterflies of Colombia. Found in the late 1800s in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Maria mountain range, this was the first specimen of ...

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Since these delicate wings are part of a butterfly’s exoskeleton, they can be preserved for many years. One of the oldest known pinned butterfly samples in the world dates back to 1702.

It sold at Christie’s London auction house for £2.1m in 2010. Butterfly collecting, as nature writer Patrick Barkham once noted, is invariably “a male, if not especially masculine, preserve”.

Fowles claimed that the theme of the novel was about gender and class relationships but it is clear he hated butterfly collecting, indeed all kinds of specimen collecting, with a passion.

Upon arriving home, collected specimens are pinned, with a single pin through the body (thorax). We position the open wings on a flat board so they’ll remain in the spread position once the ...

The dead animal specimens that comprise natural history collections contribute a lot toward scientific understanding of their still-living counterparts – and those that have gone extinct.

In 1941, while teaching at Wellesley College, the amateur butterfly collector made a visit to Harvard’s MCZ seeking to compare his personal collection to the University’s.