Who are historys most fanatic butterfly enthusiasts?
Lord Walter Rothschild certainly was one of historys most well-known butterfly enthusiasts, perhaps largely because he had the resources to collect butterflies in a very serious way and to hire people all over the world to collect for him. He ended up with some 2.25 million moths and butterflies that he donated to the British Museum. But I think his passion has been matched by countless others, amateur naturalists from the Victorian era, scientists and explorers like Henry Walter Bates, writers like Vladimir Nabokov, and conservationists and biologists today like Robert Michael Pyle.
