Dragonfly

It is a dragon and a fly. It's dragon fly

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Butterfly and Cocoons

Have you seen a butterfly emerge from a cocoon?

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Ant on a Leaf

Even ants do not want to be wet.

Why can't they get water repellant shoes? Silly.

Glasswing Butterflies

Glasswing Butterflies are brush-footed butterflies with transparent wings. The tissues between the veins of their wings look like glass. They are found in Central America and Mexico.

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Pink Butterfly on a Pink Flower

Flowers and butterflies drift in color, illuminating spring. ~Author Unknown

Butterfly on Violets

Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine. ~Jeffrey Glassberg

White with Black Streaks Butterfly

The butterfly, a cabbage-white,
(His honest idiocy of flight)
Will never now, it is too late,
Master the art of flying straight.
~Robert Graves, "Flying Crooked"

Yellow Butterfly with Red Streaks on a Violet Flower

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. ~Maya Angelou

Cream and Black Butterfly on Violet Flower

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. ~Chuang Tzu

Butterfly on Leaves

Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly. ~Andre Gide

Black-Orange Butterfly on a Sunflower

Where have those flowers and butterflies all gone
That science may have staked the future on?
He seems to say the reason why so much
Should come to nothing must be fairly faced.
~Robert Frost, "Pod of the Milkweed"

Dirty Whote Butterfly on a Old Pink Flowers

We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. ~Gerald Brenan

Orange Butterfly on Violets

The fluttering of a butterfly's wings can effect climate changes on the other side of the planet. ~Paul Erlich

Orange Butterfly on Yellow Flowers

Do ye not comprehend that we are worms,
Born to bring forth the angelic butterfly
That flieth unto judgment without screen?
~Dante Alighieri

Black-White and Orange Butterfly on a Leaf

The green grass and the happy skies
court the fluttering butterflies. ~Astrid Alauda

Red Orange Butterfly on a Leaf

And what's a butterfly? At best,
He's but a caterpillar, at rest.
~John Grey

Small Orange Butterfly on a violet FLower

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. ~Carl Sagan

Orange-Black Butterfly on Orange FLower

Do ye not comprehend that we are worms,
Born to bring forth the angelic butterfly
That flieth unto judgment without screen?
~Dante Alighieri

Caterpillar

Caterpillars are the larval form of a member of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths). They are mostly phytophagous in food habit, with some species being entomophagous. Caterpillars are voracious feeders and many of them are considered pests in agriculture.