Moving monarch butterfly caterpillars indoors

Wrestling with terminology…

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Elizabeth: I brought them indoors to feed and turn into chrysalises. To protect them from the wasps. Was I being interventionist?

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Mary: Well, in a geopolitical sense, interventionism is an action initiated by one country in another, for military or economic reasons.

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Elizabeth: To save a country?

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Mary: Or the peace. Or for ideological reasons. Preserve democracy sometimes.

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Elizabeth: But moving caterpillars seems more like medical intervention.

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Mary: Medical intervention is the treating of patients as passive recipients of treatment to help them live longer, or at least to give an impression of doing everything possible.

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Elizabeth: And caterpillars are not patients. So how about regarding the saving of caterpillars as ecological intervention?

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Mary: That was a Greek political party name.

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Elizabeth: Intervention ecology?

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Mary: More to do with restoration activities. Making things as they were.

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Elizabeth: Yeah. Monarch butterflies were introduced. So were their enemies, the wasps. Species management?

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Voice-over

Elizabeth the naturalist. Mary the terminologist. Is moving introduced caterpillars away from introduced wasps interventionism? Or not? Suggestions?

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