With the weather finally warming up, I've been out in the woods looking for a particular Beauty from a place called Camberwell... well, I would be doing that, were I living in England and searching for a glorious, and, I gather, fairly rare, early spring butterfly. The exquisite creature hibernates as an adult and so is ready to fly as soon as conditions allow, which happened this afternoon when I was trekking Avalonia's Benedict Benson Preserve. According to the website UK Butterflies, Nymphalis antiopa was dubbed the Camberwell Beauty by a naturalist names Moses Harris in a 1766 publication called The Aurelian "based on 2 individuals that were caught in Cold Arbour Lane near Camberwell in 1748." The lepidopterans weren't expected in the British Isles—they're more common on the mainland—and were also called "The Grand Surprize." In our country, the cosmopolitan N. antiopa is hardly a surprise and is known as the Mourning Cloak. It has to do with the dark color of the wings rather than any somber mood the butterfly carries aloft. When I find the first one of the year, I'm jumping for joy.