For artists, novelists and film-makers, however, butterflies and moths have often taken on darker meanings.
The fear of being abandoned by one's parents (Hansel and Gretel), or of being destroyed by (or destroying) a parent or sibling – always disguised as, say, a "wicked stepsister" or "stepmother" – recurs again and again, allowing children to access their darker fantasies.
It is now abundantly clear that those issues are being manipulated by darker forces intent on agitation.
There's a terrific film to be made about Cecil Rhodes, but it would be a lot sharper and darker than this.
Maybe Roemer should also disclose the extent to which racial profiling and exaggerated security screening take place in the US for its darker and more "ethnic" citizens with "Muslim" surnames.
He knows there are darker days ahead, even if more American tour buses pull up at Moneygall's main street looking for Ollie Hayes' pub or more British holidaymakers take a trip to the Garden of Remembrance, avoiding the heroin addicts who use it as a shooting gallery, to see where the Queen made Anglo-Irish history last month.
"The mixture of the coalition and the financial crisis and the consequent cuts means it's a darker time and more fertile ground for satire.
Regarding the sugar, the finer (caster) and darker (soft brown) the better.
So far in France, 2015 has proved to be as dark if not darker than 1995.
His boyish self-gratification at this attention is so palpable that I wonder if there had been a darker side.
Something similar has happened with Sonos, whose software for controlling its music players has had a radical remake – darker, blockier – on mobile, but not (yet) on the desktop, though you can foresee the latter app suffering a gravitational attraction towards the more-used app.
