Accepting a large collection has quite a price tag ... As a child, he once cut the lining of his mother's gown to make a butterfly net. "I didn't catch anything. The material was too stiff ...
Until a few years ago, the butterfly known as the southern small white could barely be found north of the Alps. That was before a Europe-wide invasion that brought a huge increase in the insect's ...
They were very lucky that, over the decades, the lepidopterist (butterfly researcher) Heiner Ziegler had amassed an extensive collection of specimens of none other than the southern small white ...