COLD DARK ROOM

[Moozillion]

All absolutely true!
But why are they called butterflies ?

"Butterfloege" is the Anglo-Saxon word, probably because the most common butterfly was one of the yellow sulfur types. There's also folk tales about witches turning into butterflies so they could steal milk and butter.

 

[Lyn W]

WOW!!! That must have been SURREAL!!!

Very!! It was really weird, the sort of thing you see happening in cartoons.

 

[Lyn W]

Wait a minute! I think I have those moths! If so,I always see them on the walls! I suck them up with the vacuum.

Check carpet under any heavy not regularly moved furniture!! It may be a floor covering to you but it's breakfast, lunch and dinner to them!!!

 

[johnandjade]

hello everyone!!! bloomin interweb has been playing up on the cellular walkie talkie

hope I haven't missed too much and everyone is well

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Because they fly like butter glides lol

ha de ha !

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

My old house had lots of trees around it and I once had moths in a wool carpet but I didn't know until I moved my piano to clean under it (not something done on a regular basis as the piano is heavy). I ran the vacuum cleaner over it and couldn't believe my eyes when the carpet disappeared and all I was left with was a bare track of the hessian backing, and more disappeared as I continued! Closer inspection revealed moth larvae under the carpet. I was cutting it up and burning it well into the early hours of the morning.

Here, clothes moth larvae ate my Harrod's camelhair coat and woolly bears ate a bag of horse hair I was going to use to reupholster our 400 year old chairs.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Wait a minute! I think I have those moths! If so,I always see them on the walls! I suck them up with the vacuum.

Possibly, they're very small and sort of silvery grey.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I have actually seen butter fly.
One really hot summers day when I was little my older brother annoyed my mother so much that she lost her temper and threw the butter she was using at him, It flew across the room, hit a door with a splat and then slowly slid down it in the heat. Luckily everyone saw the funny side of it and humour saved the day - sadly not the butter!

Trying to give your elder brother a pat on the head ?

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Ummmm... not judging, just curious: why did you eat a butterfly????

It was a bet at school.
Some people think it's bad to have food names beginning an animal name as it encourages children to eat them.
A friend of mine therefore ate several butterflies as they tasted of butter.
Then he ate lots of honey bees. Sweet!!!
And finally the hamster.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Cause they used to think they ate buttercups?

Logical.
But wrong.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

"Butterfloege" is the Anglo-Saxon word, probably because the most common butterfly was one of the yellow sulfur types. There's also folk tales about witches turning into butterflies so they could steal milk and butter.

Correct!!!!
Or possible from an old Dutch word that means 'excretes butter', as they were thought to do that.
Lovely on toast, butterfly pooh.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

hello everyone!!! bloomin interweb has been playing up on the cellular walkie talkie

hope I haven't missed too much and everyone is well

I was wondering where you'd gone.
Was a little concerned.
Hope the problem gets fixed soon and a jolly good evening to you.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Evening, everyone!!!
Finished a horrible days teaching, finally.
Grammar all day.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Butterflies have only been about for 55 million years, much less than moths from which they evolved which first appeared 190 million years ago, or their parent class, insects which are first found in rocks 396 million years old, but probably existed much earlier.
It is thought that butterflies evolved because of the success, 55 million years ago, of the bats, which spread all over the world, formed many species and ate an awful lot of moths. Butterflies are safe from moths as they are diurnal. (come out in the day.)

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Bats, of course, have poor eyesight , but use their ears for echolocation, a kind of radar to find their prey and avoid crashing into things.
A French scientist in the 18th century proved this by putting cotton wool in the ears of bats, they crashed into everything and so he posited that they had an extra sense, but no one took it seriously for another 150 years.
Moths echolocation is much better than sonar, and they will never, ever crash into you or get tangled in your hair.
Ahem!!!
David Attenborough once said this on a documentary and as he said it, a bat collided with the side of his head.
Bats miscalculate, sometimes.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Josie Lawrence, the British comedienne and actress, was once asked by a newspaper journalist for the column "Who would you most like to be like ?".
She loves David Attenborough, as do I , so said his name, as she loved his career, his wisdom and his sense of adventure.
A couple of weeks later, the article was published and Josie noticed the heading was actually, "Who would you most like to look like."

 

[Lyn W]

Correct!!!!
Or possible from an old Dutch word that means 'excretes butter', as they were thought to do that.
Lovely on toast, butterfly pooh.

Hence the name 'butt er'!

 

[Lyn W]

I was wondering where you'd gone.
Was a little concerned.
Hope the problem gets fixed soon and a jolly good evening to you.

I've been having problems as well this evening - able to like posts but couldn't reply.
Seems to have resolved itself now.

Maybe it's Storm Barney which is blowing gusts of about 70 mph at the moment

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Hence the name 'butt er'!

Evening, Lyn.
Hope you've had a good day.

 

[Yellow Turtle01]