The mesh bag was long enough that if we caught a tiger swallowtail or a spicebush swallowtail, or a mourning cloak, or a European cabbage, or a common sulphur, or a red admiral, or a painted lady, or a monarch, or a viceroy we could, with a twist of the wrist, flip its tapered tip over the wire rim and trap the butterfly inside.

NPR: Excerpt: 'At Large and At Small'