What is a group of butterflies called?

Collective Noun for Butterflies. The collective noun for butterflies is the word you would use to describe a group of butterflies.

We have identified the following word(s) that you could call a group of butterflies:

flight
flutter
swarm

Used in a sentence, you could say "Look at the flight of butterflies", where "flight" is the collective noun that means group.

As you can see, you simply substitute the word "group" with one of the collective nouns on our list above when describing a group of butterflies.

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