Butterflies and Moths

Peacock Butterfly

How does one become a butterfly? Pooh asked pensively.

You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar. Piglet replied,

'You mean to die? asked Pooh. 'Yes and no, he answered. 'What looks like you will die, but what's really you will live on'.

- A A Milne

Polyommatus bellargus

Saturnia pavonia

Vanessa cardui

Vanessa atalanta

'Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp but, if you would sit down quietly, may alight upon you'.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Aglais io

Pararge aegeria

Papilio machaon

Apatura iris

'I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow flowers and butterflies in summer that have been'.

- J R R Tolkien

Nymphalis polychloros

Tiger Moth

Arctia caja