Author

Gary N. Ross

A longtime contributor to Natural History, Gary Noel Ross lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is Director of Butterfly Festivals for the North American Butterfly
Association and a research associate at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity at the Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville. This essay is adapted with permission from “White Morphos, Shotguns, and ‘Evil Women,’” News of the Lepidopterists’ Society, volume 51, number 2.

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