Turns out Vladimir Nabokov—author of Bend Sinister, Lolita, and Pale Fire, among others—was right all along when he hypothesized that butterflies came to the New World from Asia.
Nabokov, an amateur, self-taught lepidopterist, came up with his theory in 1945. Then, the experts blew him off; nearly seven decades later, the old man is vindicated. Put that in your pipes and smoke ’em, you over-credentialed hacks.
