[Article] The Butterflies Are Back!

The Butterflies Are Back!
Posted by mary in canada / montreal on Mar 09 2006

One of my favorite words to learn in any language is butterfly - or papillon, flutur, smetterling, farfalla, mariposa.....the onomatopoeic list goes on. The names are as pretty as the butterflies are, so I was intrigued when I heard that one of the greenhouses at the Botanical Gardens in Montreal becomes home for thousands of butterflies during the early spring.

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the coolest thing about the butterflies you can't see from the pictures and I neglected to mention is that when they are at rest with closed wings (when they eat, for example) they are brown and blend in easily with the foliage but when they fly they are a brilliant blue.

does anyone know what type they are? I was too busy chasing them to pay attention to labels at the Jardin.

One of my favorite words to learn in any language is butterfly - or papillon, flutur, smetterling, farfalla, mariposa....

Ok, papillon is in French, mariposa - in Spanish, I suspect that farfalla is an Italian word, but what about the rest?? Flutur?? Smetterling??

flutur is in albanian..the other one i don't know..

german . maybe spelled wrong?