When I see brightly coloured adult butterflies, I am reminded of my grandpa.  They loved him!
Thats sweet, butterflies are beautiful creatures. Do you know much about them?
Not too much, but I learned a little in science class.  They are actually insects for the order Lepidoptera, which includes moths.
That makes sense, i never knew what the big difference between the two was but always preferred butterflies.
Yes, me too.  Bullterflies have that quick, four-stage life cycle.  The primary schools here always "hatch" a butterfly.
Thats awesome is there anything else you can tell me about them?
Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera ( , from Ancient Greek "lepís" “scale” + "pterón" “wing”) is an order of insects that includes butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans). About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera are described, in 126 families and 46 superfamilies, 10 per cent of the total described species of living organisms. It is one of the most widespread and widely recognizable insect orders in the world. The Lepidoptera show many variations of the basic body structure that have evolved to gain advantages in
Butterfly
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises the large superfamily Papilionoidea, which contains at least one former group, the skippers (formerly the superfamily "Hesperioidea"), and the most recent analyses suggest it also contains the moth-butterflies (formerly the superfamily "Hedyloidea"). Butterfly fossils date to the Paleocene, which was about 56 million years ago.