Bean Bunny aggravates Miss Piggy with a butterfly prop in Muppet*Vision 3D.
A butterfly is a winged insect. In their larvae stage they are known as caterpillars.
Butterflies have been featured in several sketches on The Muppet Show, including the "Elusive Butterfly" with Florence Henderson in episode 107 and "The Butterfly," a poem read by Rowlf in episode 120.
On Sesame Street the creatures were the subject of the "Elmo's World: Butterflies" episode, the Elmo storybook Flutter By, Butterfly, a Sesame Street pageant on "The Life of a Butterfly," and the street stories of Episode 3896 and Episode 4268.
The Muppet Workshop produced a large number of butterfly puppets that were given to and operated by mourners attending Jim Henson's Memorial.
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While sharing some similar traits, moths are a group of insects in the order Lepidoptera that are distinct and different from butterflies.
- A group of moths is featured in The Furchester Hotel episode "The Munching Moths".
- A moth features prominently at the beginning of OK Go's music video of "The Muppet Show Theme," in which it is swatted at by Sweetums.