Eating Leps

[John Acorn]

Ary Beth, and other Butterfolk,

Predators, in their quest for butterfly meat, often get only a mouthful of
wings.  Thus, the wings can serve an antipredator function if they contain
toxins.

As for Latin, there are many systems for Latin pronunciation, and they do
not all agree on things like "ae."  This, in part, is why biologists in
general, and the ICZN in particular, do not endorse any one system.

John Acorn
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>From: mbpi at juno.com
>To: LEPS-L at lists.yale.edu
>Subject: Re:  Eating Leps
>Date: Fri, Jul 27, 2001, 9:45 AM
>

>Hi all,
>
>I can't imagine why the wings of butterflies are the preferred choice of
>human experimental consumption...  Even other insects go for the meatie
>bodies, not the wings (!)  The wings are comprised of hairs and
>membranes, and I don't know ANY human being that relishes stray mammalian
>hairs found in their meals.  It's the body that posesses the major
>nutritional components of the insect, not the wings.  Who in their right
>mind would want to ingest a "hairy membrane?"  Methinks this bespeaks of
>a correlation of butterfly wings with flower petals and "candied violets"
>as opposed to their actual imbued composition.
>
>I recently had a child challenge me to eat a chrysalis.  I told him I'd
>do it if he could bet me a $100 to do so...  Naturally, he balked.  But
>I'm still open to the bet!!!!  I'd be willing to sample anything in the
>brassicus or fruit-tree raised butterfly species...but only their bodies,
>not their wings.  I've eaten Escargot and sauteed, newly emerged Cicadas
>(which tasted like freshly "cut grass" to my discerning palate...), so
>I'm open to "unusual culinary experiences."
>
>As for the debate on Latin pronunciation:  I studied classical Latin in
>high school, also "just a few years ago..." (tee-hee), and I was taught
>the pronunciation for "ae" was a long "i."  However, when I studied
>systematics in college, the "ae" was pronounced like a long "e" in every
>class I took, regardless of who was teaching it.  Anything ending in an
>"eae" was pronounced like TWO long "e's."  Go figure!
>
>Mary Beth Prondzinski
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