r/Butterflies↗
Butterflies: Flying Colors
A subreddit community completely and wholeheartedly devoted to the beauty and wonder of the interesting and amazing lives that the complex process of metamorphosis provides for all of us humans in the fantastic colorful creations called butterflies! This is a subreddit community to share photos and news stories about butterflies.
75k subscribers632 posts / mo in Sep 2026373 authors / mosince 2011
r/Butterflies has 75k members (+44% over the last 12 months). It gets about 632 posts a month from 373 people. Top topics: Butterfly Gardens & Beauty, Butterfly Identification and Swallowtails.
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Topics and brands on r/Butterflies
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Share of the subreddit's posts
- Butterfly Gardens & Beauty8.3%
- Butterfly Identification8.2%
- Swallowtails4.5%
- Monarch Butterflies and Caterpillars4.0%
- Swallowtail Chrysalises2.5%
Brands people mention
Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months
- iNaturalist
- Flickr
- Nature
- UGA
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