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Roughquest | 21:08 Tue 15th Apr 2008 | Animals & Nature
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Why are they so called? Surely a better name for them would be 'Flutter Byes' ??? Who names such creatures anyway? Charles Darwin?
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It appears to be one of those words that just evolved. There is some support that the sulphur butterfly is the reason for the word butterfly as its wings are mainly a butter yellow.
22:46 Tue 15th Apr 2008
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It's a very old word, found in Old English. Like wildwood, the Oxford English Dictionary suggests that 'butter' was a reference to the cream or yellow colour of the brimstone (sulphur) and other common species found in Britain.
23:03 Tue 15th Apr 2008
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