butterfly
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She said since buying the land, the group had organised litter picking, butterfly counts and an ecological survey in order to plan how best to maintain the field so that local wildlife could thrive.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
The trust said this included dingy skipper, which is a small moth-like butterfly, and the shrill carder bumblebee, which was only found in two areas in England.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
At its best, butterfly watching transforms how Ms. Korsgaard sees everything else.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Several years ago, the Danish journalist Lea Korsgaard decided she’d try to see all 64 native butterfly species in Denmark within a single year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
“That’s the logo my mom uses on all her websites,” Finn said, pointing to a tiny purple butterfly at the bottom of the page.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Younger students have been using the outdoor classroom areas to talk and play games, while others have been watching figeater beetles and butterflies visit flowering trees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
The magic of metamorphosis in butterflies underscores our capacity for change, too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The team found 111 relevant studies involving butterflies in Bangladesh.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
Like the fragile butterflies that flitter around Alicent after Helaena’s death, she was too good for all of this nonsense.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
As our train chugged along through Indiana and across Ohio, the sunshine smiling down upon us, I couldn’t stop the butterflies from batting around in my stomach.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
“The shucked abalone is trimmed, butterflied, and thwacked lightly with a mallet.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Mine arrived butterflied with the head on — a beautiful fish, and far too big for just the two of us to finish in one go.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2025
“I’ve butterflied in other places, but this is where you go to get some incredible tropical butterflies that you won’t see anywhere else.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2022
His Lincoln Logs is a butterflied frank layered with cream cheese, a version that sort of splits the difference between the classic sandwich and a Seattle dog.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2021
Through the open doorway, I caught a glimpse of line after line of cattle carcasses, butterflied with their ribs exposed like spread fingers.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
“I came back to butterflying out of the blue - a childhood passion rekindled nine years ago at a butterfly gathering in the Blue Mountains.”
From Washington Times ● Jul. 24, 2016
For some butterfly watchers, even a gentle netting is too disturbing, and they advocate butterflying with special binoculars that feature a short focal point.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 9, 2016
Jazmin starts by butterflying a chicken thigh with a deft stroke of her knife.
From Salon ● May 21, 2012
Every year sees the appearance of fictional contrivances that pause briefly as larvae in book form before butterflying their way onto the screen.
From Time Magazine Archive
I went butterflying to-day and had good luck.
From Deer Godchild by Marguerite Bernard
