The world of "flying flowers" - butterflies is surprisingly diverse! Huge machaons and tiny moths, variegated mother-of-pearl and transparent white Apollons, nightlights and twilight, the most harmful skits and the most useful silkworms, and many others. Here is about meetings with them and tells in this book - an amateur and a collector of butterflies, a topographer by profession and a poet - Lev Borisovich Stekolnikov.