Did you ever wonder where the butterfly got its name from? I did a research on it and what I found, according to the Old English (and Dutch) word for butterfly was “buttorfleoge”, the people before thought that butterfly steal butter from uncovered milk.
“Buttorfleoge” was then generalized into “butterfly” for easier usage. But that’s just the general name. Each butterfly belongs to a special species, and has it’s own binomial nomenclature, which depends on the size, weight, and coloring.
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