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"Spider" wrote in message
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Whilst pruning my pyracantha hedge these past few days, I have been
surrounded by clouds of butterflies, mainly Painted Ladies, plus many bees
and hoverflies. This has brought up a query amongst my neighbours, which
I have been unable to answer. So, please, does anyone know what is the
collective noun for butterflies?

TIA.
Spider


Swarm

http://rinkworks.com/words/collective.shtml

Kind regards

Mike