When I was younger I remember, we would see colourful butterflies all over the place. But now we would be lucky to find one specially in the city area. They just seemed to have disappeared .Meghalaya is famous for its different species of butterflies. In fact , butterflies were also used for souvenir purposes . Real butterflies would be actually framed like the one in the above picture. They looked beautiful, only so much was used for commercial purposes that some of the species were becoming extinct. So the government banned this and now we don't get them any more. The one in my hand is actually a dead one, I happen to find lying on the road but it was such a beauty that I could not resist taking a picture with it.
