Butterfly Envelope

A butterfly is a major day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle of four parts: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are daytime. Butterflies have large, often brightly colored wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. Butterflies comprise the true butterflies (superfamily Papilionoidea), the skippers (superfamily Hesperioidea) and the moth-butterflies (superfamily Hedyloidea). All the other families within the Lepidoptera are referred to as moths. The known butterfly fossils to the mid Eocene epoch, between 40-50 million years ago.