The long-running PBS Nature series has found new ways to tell familiar stories, doing such technological tricks as building cameras that look like creatures, and sending “animal cams” out to mingle in the wild. But sometimes, just pointing today’s high-definition, super-slow-motion cameras is more than enough, as with tonight’s stunningly colorful special about the life, feeding and mating habits, and gorgeous colorations of butterflies. I wrote an ode to butterflies once, as part of a children’s alphabet book I hope to publish very soon. (Children’s book editors or agents, send queries here.) That poem begins, “I saw a lonely butterfly / and caught it as it fluttered by…” For more, watch for the (hopeful) publication of Animaletters. Details to follow, when and if there are any. Check local listings.