Butterflies in Origami
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Models include such real-life species as the Maniola jurtina, or meadow brown. You'll also find a butterfly bursting from its cocoon, a caterpillar, an envelope with a butterfly, and other imaginative possibilities. Each project is graded according to difficulty.
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Butterflies in Origami - Nick Robinson
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Copyright
Copyright © 2018 by Snake SA
All rights reserved.
Butterflies in Origami, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 2018, is an unabridged English translation of the work originally published by NuiNui, Switzerland, in 2018.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Robinson, Nick, 1957– author.
Title: Butterflies in origami / Nick Robinson.
Description: Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, Inc., [2018] | Butterflies in Origami, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 2018, is an unabridged English translation of the work originally published by NuiNui, Switzerland, in 2018.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018027661| ISBN 9780486828770 | ISBN 0486828778
Subjects: LCSH: Origami. | Butterflies in art.
Classification: LCC TT872.5 .R6258 2018 | DDC 736/.982—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018027661
Manufactured in the United States by LSC Communications
82877801 2018
www.doverpublications.com
Text and diagrams
Nick Robinson
Photographs and videos
Nick Robinson
Contents
Introduction
Foreword
How to fold - Choosing paper
Techniques
9-Fold Butterfly
Pinwheel Butterfly
Emerging Butterfly
Butterfly Envelope
Sunbathing Butterfly
Yoshizawa’s Butterfly
Australian Butterfly
Donahue’s Butterfly
Meadow Brown
Moth Silhouette
Daisy Butterfly
Snyder Butterfly
Spotted Butterfly
Butterfly Card
Gigandet Butterfly
Loving Butterflies
Donachie Butterfly
Caterpillar
Butterfly for Nick Robinson
Crowding Butterflies
Introduction
Butterflies are insects that have been on the planet for the last 56 million years. Well-known for their large, colored wings and erratic flight, they are enchanting creatures that fill your heart with delight. They have a four-stage life cycle, starting as an egg, which hatches into a caterpillar. This in turn pupates into a chrysalis, a process known as metamorphosis. When this is complete, the pupa splits and the adult insect emerges. Butterflies are closely related to moths but generally have thin antennae with small clubs at the end. Moth antennae can be quite varied in appearance, but in general do not have a club at the end.
It is important that we don’t take these beautiful creatures for granted. Very few butterflies are as common as they once were and their habitat is under constant threat from development and industrialization. Hedges are torn out, along with all the wildflowers that grow beneath them. Open woodland is replaced by conifers, beneath which little can survive. Wetlands are drained and used for agriculture. The plants that provide food for the butterfly larva are often classed as weeds
and sprayed with poisons that destroy both plant and butterfly.
Origami models of butterflies and moths vary from very simple to relatively complex. In this book we focus mainly on the simpler end of