Gary N. Ross

A longtime contributor to Natural History, Gary Noel Ross lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is Director of Butterfly Fes­tivals for the North American Butterfly
Association and a research associate at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Bio­diversity at the Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville. This essay is adapted with permission from “White Morphos, Shotguns, and ‘Evil Wom­en,’” News of the Lepidopterists’ Society, volume 51, number 2.