What Was The Original Name Of Butterfly?

'Buttorfleoge' was the Old English word used for butterflies. The apparent reason is that they believed that butterflies used to steal milk. This same belief gave rise to a similar word in Dutch and German. There is an alternative folk etymology that the term has evolved as a contraction of the term 'butter-coloured fly'. This term was generally used for the Brimstone Butterfly (that is the Gonepteryx rhamni), which often is the first butterfly of Spring. A lot of people are of the mistaken opinion that the word butterfly comes from a metathesis of the word "flutterby".
There are four stages in the lifecycle of a butterfy: egg; larva (known as caterpillar); Pupa (chrysalis); Adult butterfly (imago). There are a lot of folk tales associated with butterflies. One Japanese superstition states that a person you love the most is coming to meet you if a butterfly enters your guestroom and sits behind the bamboo screen. On the contrary, a large number of butterflies is seen as a bad omen.

Flutter bye

Don't know, but contrary to popular belief it was definitely NOT ' a 'flutterby' !!