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Rather, its meditative, hyper-fixated approach to process — as seen through the eyes of seasoned lepidopterists — proves so hypnotic that any appeals or augments the movie makes are deeply felt before they’re intellectually understood.
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Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 15 Mar. 2024
In 1848, a Manchester lepidopterist called R.L. Edleston caught a rare variety of the peppered moth, normally a pale, delicately ornamented creature.
—Cal Flyn, WSJ, 3 June 2021
Plucked from tangles of jungle undergrowth to a pin-speckled board, the lepidopterist's oath.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2018
Jason Dombroskie, a lepidopterist at Cornell University, tells the New York Times.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2022
Madeline Champagne, an amateur lepidopterist — someone who studies moths and butterflies — said monarchs have a short life cycle, going from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly in about four weeks.
—BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2021
In his music and presentation of himself, Dylan has always been mercurial, recalcitrant, unknowable: a wiggly mess of creative impulses that Heylin hopes to pin down, playing the Dylanologist as lepidopterist.
—John Semley, The New Republic, 26 May 2021
That failure came back to haunt lepidopterists, one of whom discovered a nearly identical butterfly in the early 1980s.
—Stephenie Livingston, Science | AAAS, 9 Sep. 2019
To illustrate Dundy’s story, Wolfe was photographed by Irving Penn, who captured the writer’s ineffable style with his lepidopterist’s eye.
—Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 15 May 2018
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Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 15 Mar. 2024
In 1848, a Manchester lepidopterist called R.L. Edleston caught a rare variety of the peppered moth, normally a pale, delicately ornamented creature.
—Cal Flyn, WSJ, 3 June 2021
Plucked from tangles of jungle undergrowth to a pin-speckled board, the lepidopterist's oath.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2018
Jason Dombroskie, a lepidopterist at Cornell University, tells the New York Times.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2022
Madeline Champagne, an amateur lepidopterist — someone who studies moths and butterflies — said monarchs have a short life cycle, going from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly in about four weeks.
—BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2021
In his music and presentation of himself, Dylan has always been mercurial, recalcitrant, unknowable: a wiggly mess of creative impulses that Heylin hopes to pin down, playing the Dylanologist as lepidopterist.
—John Semley, The New Republic, 26 May 2021
That failure came back to haunt lepidopterists, one of whom discovered a nearly identical butterfly in the early 1980s.
—Stephenie Livingston, Science | AAAS, 9 Sep. 2019
To illustrate Dundy’s story, Wolfe was photographed by Irving Penn, who captured the writer’s ineffable style with his lepidopterist’s eye.
—Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 15 May 2018
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“Lepidopterist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lepidopterist. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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