Butterfly (Books)

Butterflies are insects mentioned briefly in the How to Train Your Dragon Book series.

Description
Butterflies are a specialized group of insects belonging to the Order Lepidoptera. Like all insects, they have a three-pairs of legs and wings. Their wings, however, come in two pair and are generally quite large and wide compared to the body and also delicate and often intricately patterned. Butterfly wings may be colored to help with camouflage, mimcry - such as 'eye' spots, or to warn of being poisonous. Most butterflies are completely harmless to humans, however.

Butterflies are almost exclusively nectar drinkers and pollinators, playing a very important role in ecology. Conversely, butterfly larvae - called caterpillars - are often detrimental to plants, as they may eat the leaves.

Function
In both the Book series and in real life, butterflies are the subject of art, literature, and folklore, due to their delicate beauty.

How to Train Your Dragon
In the in-universe book, How to Train Your Dragon the author, Professor Yobbish, is said to be working currently on a book about butterflies.