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<\/a>Scarce large blue butterfly (Phengaris teleius, Czech: modr\u00e1sek o\u010dkovan\u00fd, Oculated Blue Butterfly), Carte Maximum with stamps from the Nature Protection (Endangered Butterflies- World Wildlife Fund) series, Czech Post, 2002. Stamps, block sheets and cards designed by Libu\u0161e a Jarom\u00edr Knotkovi, engraved by Martin Srb. NML Medical Museum, 144\/2021<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
This butterfly is (in) oculated.<\/span><\/h1>\nAre You?\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\nObject of the Month: January 2022<\/span><\/h1>\n <\/p>\n
The January Object of the Month is based on wordplay: the English version must therefore be an explanation, rather a translation. The COVID 19 vaccination rates in the Czech Republic<\/a> remain stubbornly Central European: higher than in Romania, Bulgaria or Poland and much higher than in Russia or Ukraine, but lagging behind \u201cold\u201d EU members or Britain. Why have we chosen an ant-eating butterfly to call on Czechs to get their first or their booster shot?<\/p>\nIn Czech, the word for \u201cvaccinated\u201d \u2013 in-ocul-ated – is the same as the species name of the scarce large blue butterfly<\/a>, meaning \u201cspotted,\u201d \u201cwith eye-like spots.\u201d The species is indigenous to central Europe and Asia as far east as Japan. Its larvae feed first on the seeds of the great burnet and later fall into grass, entice ants into transporting them inside the anthills and feed on their brood. Destruction of natural meadows with burnet plants and ant colonies has hurt many butterfly populations. The carte maximum<\/em>\u00a0postcard of the scarce large blue, with stamp affixed on the averse and stamped with a butterfly motif, was designed by Jarom\u00edr<\/a> and Libu\u0161e Knotek<\/a> and issued as part of the Nature Protection (Endangered Butterflies- World Wildlife Fund) series in 2002.<\/p>\nThe Object of the Month outlines the linguistic history of \u201cinoculation\u201d \u2013 we kept the word \u201cvaccination\u201d, used synonymously in Czech, for another occasion \u2013 and, at the same time, challenges the vaccine shy at least a little.<\/p>\n
Object of the Month: January 2022<\/span><\/h1>\n <\/p>\n
The January Object of the Month is based on wordplay: the English version must therefore be an explanation, rather a translation. The COVID 19 vaccination rates in the Czech Republic<\/a> remain stubbornly Central European: higher than in Romania, Bulgaria or Poland and much higher than in Russia or Ukraine, but lagging behind \u201cold\u201d EU members or Britain. Why have we chosen an ant-eating butterfly to call on Czechs to get their first or their booster shot?<\/p>\nIn Czech, the word for \u201cvaccinated\u201d \u2013 in-ocul-ated – is the same as the species name of the scarce large blue butterfly<\/a>, meaning \u201cspotted,\u201d \u201cwith eye-like spots.\u201d The species is indigenous to central Europe and Asia as far east as Japan. Its larvae feed first on the seeds of the great burnet and later fall into grass, entice ants into transporting them inside the anthills and feed on their brood. Destruction of natural meadows with burnet plants and ant colonies has hurt many butterfly populations. The carte maximum<\/em>\u00a0postcard of the scarce large blue, with stamp affixed on the averse and stamped with a butterfly motif, was designed by Jarom\u00edr<\/a> and Libu\u0161e Knotek<\/a> and issued as part of the Nature Protection (Endangered Butterflies- World Wildlife Fund) series in 2002.<\/p>\nThe Object of the Month outlines the linguistic history of \u201cinoculation\u201d \u2013 we kept the word \u201cvaccination\u201d, used synonymously in Czech, for another occasion \u2013 and, at the same time, challenges the vaccine shy at least a little.<\/p>\n
In Czech, the word for \u201cvaccinated\u201d \u2013 in-ocul-ated – is the same as the species name of the scarce large blue butterfly<\/a>, meaning \u201cspotted,\u201d \u201cwith eye-like spots.\u201d The species is indigenous to central Europe and Asia as far east as Japan. Its larvae feed first on the seeds of the great burnet and later fall into grass, entice ants into transporting them inside the anthills and feed on their brood. Destruction of natural meadows with burnet plants and ant colonies has hurt many butterfly populations. The carte maximum<\/em>\u00a0postcard of the scarce large blue, with stamp affixed on the averse and stamped with a butterfly motif, was designed by Jarom\u00edr<\/a> and Libu\u0161e Knotek<\/a> and issued as part of the Nature Protection (Endangered Butterflies- World Wildlife Fund) series in 2002.<\/p>\n The Object of the Month outlines the linguistic history of \u201cinoculation\u201d \u2013 we kept the word \u201cvaccination\u201d, used synonymously in Czech, for another occasion \u2013 and, at the same time, challenges the vaccine shy at least a little.<\/p>\n
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