About the book: year / The world of “flying flowers” ​​- butterflies - is amazingly diverse! Huge swallowtails and tiny moths, variegated mother-of-pearl and transparent-white Apollos, moths and moths, the most harmful cabbage moths and the most useful silkworms, and many others. It is in this book that the lover and collector of butterflies, a topographer by profession and a poet, talks about his encounters with them. Lev Borisovich Stekolnikov. The young reader will get acquainted here not only with various representatives of butterflies, but will also receive advice on how to catch them, how to maintain and preserve them.