Hairstreak (ヘアーストリーク蝶, 细纹蝶, 털나비 )

A clue on Jeopardy mentioned a hairstreak the other day, and I guessed "bird" because while it sounds like maybe a silver streak of hair worn as a type of style, hairstreak sounded like some form of winged animal, and indeed it had wings, except it was an insect, the butterfly, one of the creatures around us with the highest reputation, despite it being a bug. I often marvel at the discrepancy of attitudes humans have towards animals, and I've spoken up for snakes as just misunderstood and discriminated against because of their shape and movement. Butterflies tend to be beautiful with wonderful patterns on their wings, so they look like works of art, not anything harmful, and indeed they don't bite anyone or cause any harm. But we could say the same thing about ants, rolly pollies, and smaller bugs...but MJ often classifies them all as "MOGI!" screams and tries to kill them or get away from them as fast as possible. In some cases, she's correct: a tick that causes lyme disease has been spotted in outdoor areas like gardens around where we live, so it does cause damage! MJ also described a cockroach "lying on its back and moving its legs around" in the lobby of our condo building, which o be fair does sound pretty gross. Some bugs are just attracted to dirty areas and look like they're up to no good. Our condo recently has been infested with seemingly a large nest of fruit flies, probably because MJ leaves out large pieces of fruit like a quickly ripening pineapple, kiwis, oranges, and what we found was the culprit today: a wilted peony flower that went bad on Day 2 of us bringing it home from Trader Joe's and soon the water in the vase became just a cesspool of flower remains and what looked like slime, perfect conditions for fruit flies to gather. In that moment I sympathized with MJ about disliking bugs: they're just creepy, especially when 5-10 or more of them gather around one thing and cluster around. I have the same dislike of groups of pigeons, geese, ducks, seagulls, etc....STOP FEEDING THESE THINGS people, it's bad for the birds' diet and it's bad for me, I don't want to get pooped on or get touched by these birds, who knows what diseases they carry. I guess that's why we love butterflies: 1.) they look beautiful, 2.) they don't gather in groups, although monarch butterlies convey quite a site during their annual migration, and 3.) they're not dirty, or at least known to land on poop or equivalent. They're usually around flower gardens and plants, it's where we all want to be on a warm spring-summer day, just chilling in the garden and enjoying their company. Butterflies also have a pretty cool birthing story that adds to their mystique: the 4-step metamorphosis includes egg, larva, pupa, and adult, as most Pokemon players know already if they ever caught a Caterpie which invovled into metapod into Butterfree. The egg turns into a larva or caterprillar and then into a pupa, or chrysalis (just the name chrysalis sounds cool, like crystal). Compare that to the human process of the egg upon fertilization becoming an embryo and then developing into a fully-formed baby but all inside the mother's womb, I guess the butterly metamorphosis process is just cooler than the human one, it all happens on the outside and we can see the actual changes, whereas humans can only rely on ultrasound printouts and measuring heartbeats until the baby pops out....at which point maybe we can consider that the caterpillar? And then it needs to be wrapped up in the cocoon of the chrysalis (swaddling clothes like Baby Jesus) until maybe Age 13 or so when it comes of age and becomes an adult? (Some would argue kids nowadays never become adults and permanently stay in the chrysalis stage unmoving looking at their phones). Maybe the butterfly metamorphosis is better! And less expensive.