Who I was, covered up in leaves

[sovay]

My mother heard on the radio this afternoon that butterfly fossils prove that the proboscis evolved a full geologic period before flowering plants did.

Me: "So what were they eating with them?"

My mother: "Aha!"

(She's suspecting carrion.)

Comments

[sovay]

Bloodthirsty butterflies definitely sounds familiar (in a SF way, I mean, not in rl). HMm.

I've run across them in print, but I would believe they had been parallel-invented by multiple writers: it's such a pretty, horrific image, how could you not?

[thisbluespirit]

True! I wonder what, though? It would be nice to remember. (Or perhaps your mother is right and then it just all race memory of being eaten by butterflies. Perhaps. ;-D)