![]() ![]() The butterflies attract many others to the farm, including journalists, ecotourists and an eccentric group of knitters. ![]() He sets up a make-shift lab in a caravan outside Dellarobia’s house, brings his group to help, and hires Dellarobia as an assistant. One day she discovers trees covered in thousands of monarch butterflies which are spending the winter further north than their normal Mexican wintering grounds.ĭellarobia’s mother-in-law believes the butterflies to be a message from God, and her father-in-law sees them as an inconvenience in his plan to sell the land to loggers, but entomologist Ovid Byron explains to Dellarobia that the real cause is climate change. One of the many things I enjoyed about Flight Behaviour (Harper, 2012) is the insight it offers into how the scientific world appears to an outsider.ĭellarobia is a young housewife from Tennessee, intelligent but uneducated. Plenty of species are already changing their migration patterns in response to climate changeįor many people, lab lit novels offer a glimpse into the world of the scientist – their thought processes, their motivations, their laboratories. Chilling effect: detail from the paperback cover ![]()
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