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A butterfly is an insect of the Order Lepidoptera, and belongs to one of the superfamilies Hesperioidea (the skippers) or Papilionoidea (all other butterflies). Some authors would include also members of the superfamily Hedyloidea, the American butterfly moths. They are notable for their usual life cycle—proceeding from the larval stage as caterpillars through a pupic metamorphisis into their winged adult form. The patterns formed by their brightly coloured wings and their erratic-yet-graceful flight has made butterfly watching a popular hobby.
People who study or collect butterflies (or the closely related moths) are called lepidopterists or aurelians.
The Old English word for butterfly was buttorfleoge apparently because butterflies were thought to steal milk. A similar word occurs in Dutch and German originating from the same belief. This is believed to have led to the evolution of its present name form - butterfly.
An alternative folk etymology, current in Great Britain, is that it originated as a contraction of term butter-coloured fly referring to the Brimstone Butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni, often the first butterfly of Spring. Earlier, it was mistakenly considered that the word butterfly came from a metathesis of "flutterby".
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