For the rest of his life, with the pure, cold, scientific passion of a lepidopterist, he was true to butterflies.
Besides being a scholar, critic, translator, chess player, lepidopterist and eccentric, he is one of those relatively rare writers who in the midst of their career have been .
As professional lepidopterist, Nabokov has claimed the discovery of several butterflies since he came to America, notably of Neonympha Dorothea, a creature named for a friend who .
Butterflies star in watershed walk The Norwalk River Watershed Association will have a butterfly walk with lepidopterist Victor DeMasi, research affiliate for the Peabody Museum in New Haven, on Saturday, Aug. 10 from 10 to noon (rain date: Sunday, Aug. 11).
Aug. 8, 2013 - Ridgefield Press