I have been wont to stalk bumble bees and butterflies through fields, but it is much harder (and poor trail ethos) to chase a butterfly across the tundra. I recently hiked above the treeline in the Indian Peaks Wilderness in the Rockies, and I was struck by how many beautiful marked white butterflies I saw dashing and fluttering about the tundra near 11,000 feet. They were flying about everywhere about a foot or maybe two off the ground. I was charmed. I utterly rejoiced when one finally, finally deigned to stop its fly about and rest near the trail and let me take its picture.
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Protected: Week 1: Introducing Maria Sibylla Merian’s Life and Legacy
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Protected: Eruca Life: Course Content for Catching the Bug(s)
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Erucula: Fabula Metamorphosis
Ērūcula: Fābula Metamorphōsis tells the tale of one little caterpillar’s joy and pride with each new stage of its metamorphosis. After all, Erucula is easily the leader of all other caterpillars; it even wears a crown! As Erucula muses about its own life, it describes the lives of the other caterpillars that crawl about the forests of Surinam. Each caterpillar has its own chrysalis and becomes a unique butterfly or moth. This novella uses the vibrant vocabulary and images that Maria Sibylla Merian herself used to describe the lifecycle of insects in her book Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, which she published in 1705
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Sample for Erucula: Fabula Metamorphosis
Erucula: Fabula Metamorphosis is a Latin novella published by Bombax Press. This sample for Erucula: Fabula Metamorphosis contains two pages of the novella. These pages introduce the reader to the narrator, which occurs after four pages of vocabulary and pictures to orient readers to the vocabulary in the novella. It contains all the images used in the novella as well as the glossed vocabulary.
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The Index Verborum for Erucula: Fabula Metamorphosis
Although Bombax Press typically includes both indices and dictionaries for Latin novellas, Erucula: Fabula Metamorphosis differs from this precedent. Erucula: Fabula Metamorphosis contains an Index Verborum, and some words are grouped together in order to conserve space and reduce the cost of printing in color. This then reduces the overall cost of the book. The complete Index Verborum for Erucula: Fabula Metamorphosis is reproduced here. The Index Verborum provides readers with the opportunity to look up any word form that is unfamiliar.
