Sunday, January 06, 2008

Caligo memnon, the owl butterfly, ranges from Mexico to Colombia...Caged magpie jays at La Pacifica readily ate adults, and I myself found no objectionable taste when I ate several.

-- P. J. DeVries, Costa Rican Natural History

3 comments:

Kate said...

Lepidoptery, one of the few academic fields in which it is permissible to eat one's subjects.

Molly said...

I once got BdB to admit that he had eaten some of his genetically modified drosophila.

Kate said...

You know when a boy eats bugs that he's just trying to impress you . . .