Resembling small flowers that fly hurriedly and flirtatiously, in their distinctive evolutions, these attractive creatures don't seem to have a set object in life. Colourful and fragile, they zigzag through the wind of irrelevant opinions, in the most varied of natural situations. In brief, butterflies are -for many- the most fascinating and beautiful insects on the planet.

Butterflies belong to the group of "lepidopterons" and are found in almost every environment, although they prefer warm, tropical regions. During their lifetime they undergo a series of changes, better known as metamorphosis, a phenomenon that includes diet variations and radical changes of look.

Recent investigations have demonstrated that in Peru there are more than 3,700 species of butterfly, in other words, 20 percent of all the types of butterflies that exist in the world.

Thanks to this impressive variety of species of butterflies, Ecuador occupies the sixth place in the world, and the second amongst all tropical countries, while Bolivia, occupies the seventh place with as much as 39 species.

The zigzag of these small "flying flowers" is unstoppable in all natural regions of the Andean countries, because these insects have adapted themselves to the roughness of the climate and the altitude.

Yes indeed, the millennial lands of the Inca offer, to researchers and travellers from all over the world, the possibility of discovering the blinding colours and the hurried flight of the butterfly: "the flowers that fly".