All 26 letters of the English alphabet and the numbers 0 through 9 are found on the wings of butterflies.
Adam Rifkin stashed this in Art!
Source: http://imgur.com/gallery/iyavz31
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It took Kjell Sandved 24 years to take pictures of all the letters and numbers on live butterflies.
He visited over 30 countries.
I can't decide which is the most impressive - the Q or the 4. Or the the G. Or the 2. Or Kjell Sandved's obsessiveness.
I know, right? I'd never even heard of him until today...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjell_Bloch_Sandved
More about the Butterfly Alphabet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_Alphabet
Bless Wikipedia.
More on Nature's Alphabet:
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2005/11/natures-alphabet-2/
If you touch a butterfly's wings, can it still fly?
Yes: http://insects.about.com/od/butterfliesmoths/f/touch_butterfly_die.htm
9:55 AM Mar 30 2013