Butterfly

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butterfly : any of numerous slender-bodied diurnal lepidopteran insects including one superfamily (apilionoidea) with broad often brightly colored wings and usually another superfamily comprising the skippers. — Merriam-Webster See also OneLook

Encyclopedia

Butterflies are insects in the clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises the large superfamily Papilionoidea, along with two smaller groups, the skippers (superfamily Hesperioidea) and the moth-butterflies (superfamily Hedyloidea). Butterfly fossils date to the Palaeocene, about 56 million years ago. — Wikipedia

Butterfly (Encyclopædia Britannica)

Papilionoidea: Butterflies and Skippers (Bug Guide, Iowa State University)

Butterflies and Moths (One Zoom)
Lepidoptera (Catalogue of Life)
Butterfly (WolframAlpha)

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Innovation

Science

Lepidopterology is a branch of entomology concerning the scientific study of moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies. — Wikipedia

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Preservation

Library

DDC: 595.789 Butterflies (Library Thing)
Subject: Butterflies (Library Thing)

Subject: Butterflies (Open Library)

LCC: QL 541 Butterflies (UPenn Online Books)
Subject: Butterflies (UPenn Online Books)

LCC: QL 541 Butterflies (Library of Congress)
Subject: Butterflies (Library of Congress)

Subject: Butterflies (WorldCat)

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Participation

Education

The Butterfly Kingdom (Ology, American Museum of Natural History)
Butterflies (Science Trek)

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
OER Commons: Open Educational Resources

Community

Government

Document

Butterfly (USA.gov)

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