How many kinds of butterflies are there?
Together butterflies and moths make up one of the larges groups of insects, called Lepidoptera. This group includes more than 165,000 different species, of which 20,000 are types of butterfly and 145,000 are types of moths. In the United States and Canada, more than 750 species of butterflies and 11,000 species of moths have been recorded. Many species of moths and a few kinds of butterflies are still being discovered.
