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[Image] ANIMALS: Insects [Days of Heaven] There are several close-up shots of grasshoppers before the grasshopper plague descends on the farm. While Linda says in voice over, "I could be a mud doctor, checking out the ground underneath," there's a close-up shot of a locust on a leaf. [The Thin Red Line] A blue butterfly crosses the screen as the first conflict between the Americans and Japanese on Hill 210 erupts. When Witt is finally surrounded by the Japanese soldiers and the Japanese officer is speaking to him, white butterflies fly above the grass in the background. [Badlands] 
Holly says at one point she "grew to love the forest...the hum of the dragonflies."
Similarities in Malick's Films, Part I
Badlands