Winterwing Butterfly

Winterwing Butterflies are recurring Creatures and Items in The Legend of Zelda series.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Location and Uses

067 (067Master Mode) Winterwing Butterfly	Description The powdery scales of this butterfly's wings cool the air around it. Watching it flutter around snowflakes is a thing of beauty. Cook it with monster parts for a heat-resistant elixir.
	Common Locations Hyrule Ridge Tabantha Frontier

Hearts Recovered No restorative effect	Cooking Effects Heat Resistance

Winterwing Butterflies can be found flying in Hyrule Ridge and the Tabantha Frontier. In order to catch them, Link must be sneaking, or else they will fly away. Alternatively, they can be purchased from Beedle at the Gerudo Canyon Stable and Tabantha Bridge Stable. When combined with Monster Parts in a Cooking Pot, the resulting food will be a Chilly Elixir.^[1] They can also be used at the Kochi Dye Shop as an ingredient to make Blue Dye.

73 Winterwing Butterfly	Description The powdery scales of this butterfly's wings cool the air near it. Watching it flutter around snowflakes is a thing of beauty. Cook it with monster parts for a heat-resistance elixir.
	Common Locations Gerudo Highlands Mount Lanayru

Winterwing Butterflies are blue-winged Butterflies with black bodies that can be found in Freezing Climates on the Surface and in the Sky. Beedle also sells them at Tabantha Bridge Stable. They produce Chilly Elixirs when Cooked with Monster Parts at a Cooking Pot or Portable Pot.^[2] They are known among Insect enthusiasts for the unique scales on their wings which cool the surrounding air.^[2]^[4] Winterwing Butterflies feed on dung and rotten Fruits.^[5]

Winterwing Butterflies are required to Enhance the following pieces of Armor at a Great Fairy Fountain:

Armor	Frostbite Headdress
Level	★★
Materials	5Ice-Breath Lizalfos Horns 5Winterwing Butterflies
Armor	Frostbite Shirt
Level	★★
Materials	5Ice-Breath Lizalfos Horns 5Winterwing Butterflies
Armor	Frostbite Trousers
Level	★★
Materials	5Ice-Breath Lizalfos Horns 5Winterwing Butterflies

Armor	Level	Materials
Frostbite Headdress	★★	5Ice-Breath Lizalfos Horns 5Winterwing Butterflies
Frostbite Shirt	★★	5Ice-Breath Lizalfos Horns 5Winterwing Butterflies
Frostbite Trousers	★★	5Ice-Breath Lizalfos Horns 5Winterwing Butterflies

Total Winterwing Butterflies required: 15

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Names in Other Regions
Language	Names	Meanings
Japanese	ヒンヤリアゲハ (Hin'yari ageha) ^{(BotWBreath of the Wild)}
Chinese^{TRTraditional}	冰泠鳳蝶 (Bīnglíng fèngdié) ^{(BotWBreath of the Wild)}
Chinese^SISimplified	冰冷凤蝶 (Bīnglěngfèngdié) ^{(BotWBreath of the Wild)}
Dutch	Sneeuwvlinder ^{(BotWBreath of the Wild \| HWAoCHyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity)}^[6]^[7]	Snow butterlfy
French^EUEuropean	Papillon glagla ^{(BotWBreath of the Wild)}
German	Frostflügler ^{(BotWBreath of the Wild)}
Italian	Farfalla del gelo ^{(BotWBreath of the Wild)}	Butterly of frost
Korean	썰렁호랑나비 (Sseolleonghorangnabi) ^{(BotWBreath of the Wild)}
Russian	Морозная бабочка (Moroznaya babochka) ^{(BotWBreath of the Wild)}
Spanish^{LALatin American}	Mariposa invernal ^{(BotWBreath of the Wild)}
Spanish^EUEuropean	Mariposa gelida ^{(BotWBreath of the Wild)}
This table was generated from Zelda Wiki's translation data.

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Winterwing Butterfly
The powdery scales of this butterfly's wings cool the air around it. Watching it flutter around snowflakes is a thing of beauty. Cook it with monster parts for a heat-resistant elixir. — Inventory (Breath of the Wild)
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Winterwing Butterfly
The powdery scales of this butterfly's wings cool the air near it. Watching it flutter around snowflakes is a thing of beauty. Cook it with monster parts for a heat-resistance elixir. — Inventory (Tears of the Kingdom)
↑ Winterwing Butterfly
The powdery scales of this butterfly's wings cool the air around it. Watching it flutter around snowflakes is a thing of beauty. It's valued as an ingredient in the making of heat-resistant elixirs. — Spoils (Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity)
↑ A winterwing butterfly, huh? You must know about their special scales! The scales coating their wings are wintry-fresh. They put the brrr in brrrilliant! — Beedle (Tears of the Kingdom)
↑ Couldn't handle the winterwing butterfly's eating habits, huh? Listen, some butterflies just prefer dung and rotten fruit. — Beedle (Tears of the Kingdom)
↑ Sneeuwvlinder — Material (Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity)
↑ Sneeuwvlinder — Hyrule Compendium (Breath of the Wild)