playing with my cam, a tripod & a laserpointer

" Envoy

Princes or professional researchers might seem to  be  the  only  people with  the  resources  to  grow  these  butterflies.  [...] But there is  no  reason  why  an  amateur  with a reasonably  well  appointed  greenhouse,  particularly  in  the  warmer  parts  of  the  temperate  zone, should not be able to cultivate these insects for fun.  This they certainly provide."

JOURNAL OF THE  LEPIDOPTERISTS' SOCIETY

BREEDING HELICONIUS (NYMPHALIDAE) IN A TEMPERATE CLIMATE

JOHN R.G. Turner

Published 1974. I really enjoy reading old journals, they seem to be much more intellegible than current ones. During my University course I often felt  that inventing & using a language which "normal" people find hard to understand is often done for it´s own sake, to make matters sound more complicated and "scientific" than they really are, just to prove one´s cleverness - and superiority?
Still do.

butterfly cake

Baked a cake today for the first time in ages.

next try

this time with remote control release...

RIP Madiba (Asimbonaga)
Was at Johannesburg Airport when Mandela died and was surprised that not much could be seen. South African personal wore black ribbons and they played Asimbonanga in some of the shops.

Unfortunately I was once again left with the impression that apartheit in it´s original sense, the races being seperated, has not yet vanished. 

P.s.: what I find really worrying and sad is, that to many people I know "not-privately" the death of a hollywood actor , sad  as it may be, is of much greater importance

Madagascar 2013