Vanessa at night - migrations

[Kenelm Philip]

Regarding my posting about the _Eurema lisa_ flight to Bermuda, Paul
Cherubini commented:

> Maybe the butterflies had been clinging by the thousands to nearby ships
> crossing the Atlantic and then left as Bermuda came into sight.

Let me add a bit to my quote from Scudder:

"...early one October morning several persons living on the northern side
of the main island of Bermuda perceived what they thought was a cloud
coming from the northwest, which turned out to be an immense concourse
of small yellow butterflies, which flitted about all the open grassy patches
and cultivated grounds in a lazy manner..."

We're not talking about _thousands_ here, but a much larger number. Either
there was a _gigantic_ fleet of ships out there, or Paul has seriously
dulled Occam's razor!

							Ken Philip
fnkwp at uaf.edu




 
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