But the officer wanted merely to chat and catch butterflies.

ECONOMIST: Eric Newby

It is hard work crawling around underground, but, Lemaire points out, beetles are at least easier to catch than some other creatures - butterflies, for example.

BBC: Magazine

Like most modern butterfly hikes, our excursion involved catch-and-release identifying: we temporarily encapsulated the unharmed butterflies in specimen tubes, identified them and released them 10 or 15 minutes later.

BBC: Switzerland��s valley of butterflies