Peter Laufer, author of The Dangerous World of Butterflies: The Startling Subculture of Criminals, Collectors, and Conservationists and Mission Rejected: U.S. Soldiers Who Say No to Iraq, sits on the couch (The Daily Show doesn’t have a couch, but, you know—talk show tropes) for a butterfly grilling by host Jon Stewart.

Who are the people who spend hundreds of thousands of dollars illegally collecting rare butterflies? Supervillains?

Well…kind of.

Peter Laufer sheds light on the villainous subculture of poachers who steal endangered butterflies and sell them for big money.

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