Inhalt: "They are children of sunlight and as fleeting as rainbows." The Secret Lives of Butterflies is your invitation into the weird and mysterious world of this delicate winged wonder. Butterflies are unquestionably the most colourful creatures on earth. Although they live all around us, we seldom notice them. Even more rarely do we truly appreciate their exquisite beauty. Their magic is largely a secret one. The Secret Lives of Butterflies explores new realms of biology and ecology, which have been, until now, largely undiscovered. Witness the amazing mourning cloak butterfly's aerial dog fight in its quest to win mating territories in the heart of winter... the chemistry-laden, aphroditous mating ritual of the male and female butterfly along with following the annual migration of the monarch butterfly to Mexico. Few of us realize that tens of millions of years of evolution have shaped the behaviour of the 20,000 species of butterflies in amazing ways.