The link below is an article by Tori Alexander about it and, helpfully too, documenting further reports of the population pulse in the NE U.S.
Dr. Kurt Johnson
Kurt,
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/324350
Thanks!
Tori
--- On Sat, 5/5/12, Carolyn Kunin <chaiselongue@ATT.NET> wrote:
From: Carolyn Kunin <chaiselongue@ATT.NET>
Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] It Happens (Red Admiral outbreak in NYC)
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Date: Saturday, May 5, 2012, 3:08 PM
Can anyone tell us more about the "Nabokov-lore, the numeral-like underwing pattern of this species and the reported occurrence of such an outbreak in Russia supposedly had some fateful parallel with the dates of the Russian revolution"? --Tori Alexander
Dear Tori Alexander,
Are you referring to the butterfly "outbreak" or the historical occurrence? If the latter, I have supposed it was the assassination of Alexander II on March 13, 1881 and the outbreaks of violence, especially pogroms against the Jews that make 1881 a fateful year. The vicous attacks that followed the assassination certainly can be seen as a bellwether of the later Russian revolutions
C
Kunin
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