My wife had an interesting perspective I'll share: "Maybe it helps to think of illustrated butterflies as a kind of iconography...One of the first things littl

My wife had an interesting perspective I'll share: "Maybe it helps to think of illustrated butterflies as a kind of iconography...One of the first things little kids (especially girls) learn to draw is “a butterfly” (meaning, a dead butterfly). It will not have anything like natural coloring, and might have big friendly eyes, but will definitely have two curling antennae and spread, uplifted wings. It’s a heraldic image, like a lion rampant. Lions don’t look like that, but the symbol says what it needs to." Now all I can think of is the perl6 butterfly, Camelia...