…a nectar-feeding insect with two pairs of large, typically brightly coloured wings that are covered with microscopic scales. Butterflies are distinguished from moths by having clubbed or dilated antennae, holding their wings erect when at rest, and being active by day…
…used in names of flying insects of other orders, e.g. butterfly, dragonfly, firefly…
…a fine-meshed bag supported on a frame at the end of a handle, used for catching butterflies…
…a small ray of warm coastal waters with very broad triangular fins…
…a butterfly that has cream or brown wings crossed by narrow contrasting lines…
…a very large South American butterfly which flies at dusk, with a large eye-like marking on the underside of each hindwing…
…a small mollusc with wing-like extensions to its body which it uses for swimming…
…a Chinese buddleia that is cultivated in the West for its large spikes of fragrant purplish-lilac or white flowers, which are highly attractive to butterflies…
…a small sponge cake with its top cut off and divided into two pieces, which are then fixed to the cake with buttercream at an angle to resemble a butterfly’s wings…
…any of a number of brightly coloured or boldly marked fish of warm waters, in particular:…
…a long, broad knife used in pairs in some forms of kung fu…
…a valve consisting of a rotating circular plate or a pair of hinged semicircular plates, attached to a transverse spindle and mounted inside a pipe in order to regulate or prevent flow…
…a North American milkweed with bright orange flowers which are attractive to butterflies…
…a butterfly with long palps that extend in front of the head like a snout…
…(with reference to chaos theory) the phenomenon whereby a minute localized change in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere…
…a wild orchid with a flower that somewhat resembles a butterfly in shape, found in both Eurasia and North America…
…a brightly coloured Eurasian butterfly with conspicuous eyespots on its wings…
…a butterfly with mottled orange, yellow, and black markings, and wavy wing margins…
…an orange and brown New World butterfly with conspicuous eyespots on the wings…
…a widespread butterfly that has orange and brown wings with ragged edges, and a white comma-shaped mark on the underside of the hindwing…
…a large migratory orange and black butterfly that occurs mainly in North America. The caterpillar feeds on milkweed, using the toxins in the plant to render both itself and the adult unpalatable to predators…
…a large brightly coloured butterfly with tail-like projections on the hindwings…
…a very large boldly marked butterfly occurring in the tropical parts of Australasia…
