

Old Guys and Butterflies
“Are you looking for Weight Watchers?” A tall man with a clipboard looks concerned, and I am, in fact, confused. The plushy red saloon-style interior of Oddfellows Hall in Davis, California doesn’t seem quite right for the 68th annual meeting of the Lepidoptera Society. Butterflies love sunlight, after all. “Do I look fat?” The man doesn’t laugh, nor does he say yes, or no, or anything. Butterfly aficionados tend to obsessively hunt, name, and catalog bugs, and then spend lot