A hobby concerned with observing and studying butterflies, comparable to birdwatching, that has built up its own infrastructure of clubs, handbooks, checklists and festivals and includes catch-and-release observation as well as simple watching. It also feeds into citizen science: the annual Fourth of July and Canada Day butterfly counts held across North America are a census of species carried out by butterfly watchers themselves. This entity carries a shorter description than most of this wave's entities because the source article's own lead is thin, stating only what it is and its citizen-science role rather than its history.
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Butterfly gardening, planting to attract and support butterflies, is a well-documented link between the two pursuits.
Mothing and butterfly watching are both lepidoptera-observation hobbies commonly practiced by the same community.
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1. Butterfly watching (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationLead section, hobby classification (Butterfly watching)Quote, Lead section, hobby classification (Butterfly watching)
Butterfly watching is a hobby concerned with the observation and study of butterflies.
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