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• When butterflies aplenty hatched on the TV set | Brief letters

  25-12-2017 12:57
  Butterflies | The light in Kirkcudbright | Nempnett ThrubwellGeorge Monbiot’s memory (Our selective blindness is lethal the living world, 20 December) is indeed bittersweet. As a boy I also recall summertime nettlebeds thickly hanging with the black caterpillars of peacocks and small tortoiseshells. We used to gather them and then watch them pupate and hatch on the top of our television set (a somewhat bulkier item in the late 1960s). I don’t recall seeing such butterfly fecundity fo
  
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