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[Mimitchi]

Watch out Chi! Read my first post and you will see why!

Not everyone is superstitious. Please try to stay on topic and don't derail this thread.

[Priestess of Syrinx]

It's summer vacation, so I haven't seen a lot of butterflies.

What?

Yeah, I know. This is because I don't go outside in the summer. I stay downstairs where my computer and video games are.

However, when I do manage to go outside the most common thing around here are large white moths. There are so many of these here compared to all the other bugs that it's a surprise to see something like a monarch butterfly.

I've been looking through Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons for images of butterflies, simply because they're beautiful, and found this thing.
It's an albino monarch butterfly.
Has anyone ever seen one of these? They look amazing.

Other favourites, based on appearance, are the Common Blue, Apollo, Black-veined White, and Marbled White.

[TigerLily013]

It's summer vacation, so I haven't seen a lot of butterflies.

What?

Yeah, I know. This is because I don't go outside in the summer. I stay downstairs where my computer and video games are.

However, when I do manage to go outside the most common thing around here are large white moths. There are so many of these here compared to all the other bugs that it's a surprise to see something like a monarch butterfly.

I've been looking through Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons for images of butterflies, simply because they're beautiful, and found this thing.
It's an albino monarch butterfly.
Has anyone ever seen one of these? They look amazing.

Other favourites, based on appearance, are the Common Blue, Apollo, Black-veined White, and Marbled White.

Wow that albino monarch is something! It's very pretty. I'd like to see that myself someday.

No butterfly sightings yet, just maybe a couple moths here and there, but I shall keep my eyes open

[i luv tamas!!!!!!]

I have a bug net and I caught a cabbage butterfly with it. Why are they called "cabbage" butterflys?

[Elana]

Why are they called "cabbage" butterflys?

I think it's because as caterpillars, they like to eat cabbages.

[Kokuma]

I had never heard of this myth before. Even if it's true, isn't it a nice thing that the person's spirit has returned to say they're okay? Either way, let's not scare each other. Butterflies are pretty, and that's all I have to say.

This reminds me of one thing.

I was in this one chidren hospital fundraising concert in Hartwall Arena (Helsinki, Finland) last Fall and they taped whole concert to TV for later airing (next week or so)

When I re-watched the concert from TV, there was some interviews and other added footage between artists' performances, and one of the clips was interview of parents of this little girl who had been in the hospital to which the concert raised funds. She had fought leucemia (blood cancer) but sadly lost to the disease and passed away at age 4.

In the last weeks of her life, she painted pictures of angels and often colored their wings yellow. Then once she had said that she's going to become an angel that have yellow wings, and her parents were like "but aren't angel wings usually white? do you mean you are going to become a fairy with yellow wings?". But the girl stated that she ment angel, angel with yellow wings.

In her funeral, after her coffin was lifted down the grave and priest was keeping short speech, there suddenly flew a brimstone out of the grave pit, over the ppls' heads towards the sun. It was early springtime, there was not yet many plants or green grass around and really rarely butterflies.
Her mum suddenly remembered her talkings of a "angel with yellow wings".

I'm not saying that the butterfly was this little girl's soul flying on yellow wings, but something special there was in that moment.

[Kokuma]

The butterflies appear here in Finland in late of May and the top season is in June I think.

This summer has been quite low-butterflious I think. I haven't seen many butterflies this summer, or maybe I just haven't look around me carefully enough when I have been walking aside of a flower field?

I used to catch butterflies when I was in elementary. I made bug catching net from old curtain fabric and had quite a large collection of butterflies, even the nocturnal "speeders" (as we call them in finnish, kiitäjä). In those days I knew many butterfly species with name but nowadays I regocnize only these common ones like that "gabbage butterfly" or "small tortoiseshell".

[TigerLily013]

Nice to see you back Kokuma

Anyway I saw a couple of monarch butterflies on my way to babysitting one day last week. The little guy was trying to guide me to crossing the road