Long had we waited… left to making the best guesses we could given whatever references we could find. Never really having the opportunity simply to sit and study the astonishing varieties of species, to learn the geographic locations where they might be found, or to improve our field skills.
Then, in 2012, Seabrooke Leckie and David Beadle gave us hope
Written by Paul Waring and Martin Townsend, and illustrated by Richard Lewington, this forthcoming third edition of the “Field Guide to Moths of Great Britain and Ireland” promises to be fully revised, updated, and restructured.
A best-selling novelist, highly acclaimed professor of literature, and thrice a nominee for the Nobel Prize, Vladimir Nabokov was also an avid lepidopterist for a time employed by Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology as a part-time research fellow specializing in the curation of the museum’s collection of butterflies.
In case you forgot to mark your calendar, National Moth Week 2012 in the U.S. begins July 23 and lasts through July 27. So if you haven’t sugared a few trees, strung up a wine rope, and strung up and illuminated your white sheet, you had better get to it or rush being left out of all the fun.