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“'Crawling at your feet,' said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), 'you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices of Bread-and-butter, its body is a crust, and its head is a lump of sugar.'”

Bread-and-Butterfly
2book16
General Information
Species Insect
Behind The Scenes
First appearance Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

The Bread-and-Butterfly is an insect from Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. It appears in Chapter 3 of the book.

Description[]

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There[]

Its name and form is a pun on bread and butter. Its wings are thin slices of bread-and-butter with a crust as its body and a lump of sugar as its head. It lives on weak tea with cream in it.

Alice in Wonderland (1951)[]

In the 1951 Disney movie, it is a butterfly with wings of bread with butter spread on it.

Gallery[]

Through The Looking-Glass Characters

Alice The Mad Hatter The Red Queen The Red King The Red Knight The White Queen The White King The White Knight The March Hare The Sheep Humpty Dumpty Tweedledum and Tweedledee The Lion and the Unicorn The Bandersnatch Jubjub Bird The Jabberwocky Kitty The Flowers The Aged Man Lily The Monstrous Crow The White Horse The Bread-and-Butterfly The Rocking-Horse-Fly Snap-Dragonfly The Gnat

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