catopsilian

Updated: May 21, 2025

There are times and places in Guiana where emigrating butterflies turn to the north or the south; sometimes for days at a time, but sooner or later the eddies straighten out, their little flotillas cease tacking, and all swing again NNW. To-day the last of the migration stragglers of the year perhaps the fiftieth great-grandsons of those others held true to the Catopsilian lodestone.

William Beebe - Edge of the Jungle