If a birdwatcher can have a 'big year,' why not a lepidopterist?. ❋ Harry Zirlin (2010)
He is Robert Michael Pyle, lepidopterist, naturalist, conservationist and writer who knows the taxonomy and biogeographical distribution of the nation 's pale ales and lagers as well as he knows North America' s butterfly fauna. ❋ Harry Zirlin (2010)
In an extract from his new book The Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search of Our Emperors and Admirals, Patrick Barkham goes on the trail of one of Britain's most elusive butterflies• Audio slideshow: the love of butterflies• How I became a lepidopterist ❋ Patrick Barkham (2010)
But there was one subject around which our different lives came together and found deep connection: the author and lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov. ❋ Tamsin Smith (2011)
Is someone who studies butterflies and moths called an entomologist, a lepidopterist or an ornithologist? ❋ Unknown (2009)
I was at the butterfly exhibit yesterday at the Natural History Museum (a highlight of my cultural life in NYC) and the curators included some information about Nabokov who, as you probably already know, was an impassioned lepidopterist who combined trekking and writing. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Judges of the annual literary award said they were especially impressed by a passage comparing lovemaking to "a lepidopterist mounting a tough-skinned insect." ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)
Someone taught the few youngsters in our crowd coconut painting, and a long-time Cuban refugee lepidopterist taught a minicourse for ages eight to twelve at the community college. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Now that I shared my obsession with you, I hope the lepidopterist among you will find it in your heart to share yours with me. ❋ Unknown (2010)
If you're forewarned about the only ill-advised and mildly amusing sexual simile in the book - "Like a lepidopterist mounting a tough-skinned insect with a too blunt pin he screwed himself into her" – then there's nothing else risible to fear, which for a novel with penetration on almost every page is an achievement. ❋ Francesca Segal (2010)
Similarly opposed are their contrasting voices – bitter, sadistic Harriet, a reluctant mother and obsessive lepidopterist, and the deceptively rambling, maternal but mother-to-none Maddie. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Rowan Somerville has been shortlisted for The Shape of Her, in which a man goes at it "like a lepidopterist mounting a tough-skinned insect with too blunt a pin", while in Annabel Lyon's The Golden Mean, sex is more workaday – like "grinding meal". ❋ Hephzibah Anderson (2010)
The novelist and avid lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov once asked someone coming down a trail in the Rockies whether he’d seen any butterflies. ❋ Rebecca Solnit (2010)
Nabokov was well aware of the absurdity of the public image of the lepidopterist wielding a butterfly net, but nobody has succeeded like him in evoking the ethereal magic of moths and butterflies. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)
The stirrings of moth-passion I felt that night were in truth a reawakening: I have to confess to having been a boy lepidopterist of the old school. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)
Nabokov became as famous as a lepidopterist as he already was as a writer. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)
Lepi-what? ❋ Anonymous (2003)
Lepidopterist [goat] roaper ❋ Roktoy (2010)
