8/27/2023 0 Comments Download butterfly drawingThe modern acceptable way to collect butterflies is to photograph them. Peter Marren wrote an interesting article about the demise of the hobby of butterfly collecting. Now the only butterfly collectors are those field biologists collecting and identifying spices in the name of science. Also, there are far fewer butterflies now than in the past.ĭid you know that the English prime ministers Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill were once butterfly collectors? At its height of popularity in the early 20th century, there was a whole industry around the pastime of butterfly collecting, from all the specialist journals and books, the equipment, the beautiful mahogany display cabinets, and even butterfly farms. It’s no longer ethical or environmentally friendly to collect butterflies. We are a lot more ecologically conscious these days. But it is not the popular hobby it once was. Most of the butterfly illustrations in this post, have been drawn from Victorian butterfly collections.īutterfly collecting, surprisingly, is still legal (except for certain species).
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