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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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Adventures

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Inspiration

Virtual Field Trip to the Butterfly Conservatory (American Museum of Natural History)

Tropical Butterfly House Tour (Natural History Museum, YouTube 360° Video)

Blue Morpho Butterfly Feeds (Wildlife Protection Solutions, YouTube 360° Video)
Guineafowl Butterfly Close-Up (Wildlife Protection Solutions, YouTube 360° Video)
A Swarm of South African Butterflies (Wildlife Protection Solutions, YouTube 360° Video)

Talks about Butterflies (TED: Ideas Worth Spreading)

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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

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Participation

Education

Butterflies (Science Trek)

The Butterfly Kingdom (OLogy, American Museum of Natural History)
Draw a Monarch (OLogy, American Museum of Natural History)

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

Community

Occupation

Careers in Entomology (Royal Entomological Society)
What is an Entomologist? (Environmental Science.org)
Entomologist (Future Farmers of America)

Organization

Lepidopterists’ Society
North American Butterfly Association

Royal Entomological Society
Entomological Society of America
American Entomological Society

News

News of the Lepidopterists’ Society
American Butterflies

Annals of the Entomological Society of America
Journal of Insect Science (Entomological Society of America)

Butterflies (EurekaAlert, American Association for the Advancement of Science)
Butterflies (bioRxiv: Preprint Server for Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Butterflies (JSTOR)
Butterflies (Science Daily)
Butterflies (Science News)
Butterflies (Phys.org)
Butterflies (NPR Archives)

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Insects (including Butterflies) News -- ScienceDaily Current event articles on insects and butterflies. Read about insect bites, butterfly migration, caterpillar growth, which insects are beneficial and how to deal with pests.

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