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A beautifully coloured small tortoiseshell butterfly with open wings
A black and white butterfly and a small brown beetle feed on a pink flower.
A red squirrel eating next to a small bush near a pond in a lush green forest
Aglais urticae is a common resident. Migrants are also often seen. Its distribution probably has not changed during the last century. However, the Dutch Monitoring Scheme shows a decline in numbers in the 1990s; the cause is not known.
Flag and coat of arms of Great Britain on a textured background. Concept collage.
Summer day: single hoverfly on a blooming white queen annes lace
Tortoiseshell butterfly on chive flowers,
Closeup of Melanargia galathea on a flower.
An insect climbing on the stem of a herbaceous plant
A Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) in Scotland, UK
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Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) sitting on an oak tree, eating a hazelnut.
Red squirrel sitting in heather, County of Northumberland, England
Great spangled fritillary on joe-pye weed in summer, top or dorsal view, showing the pattern on the back of the wings. The Latin word fritillus means chessboard or dice box. Fritillary is also a checkered flower.
Portrait of a lion composited with Union Jack flag of the United Kingdom
The Marbled White is a distinctive and attractive black and white butterfly, unlikely to be mistaken for any other species. In July it flies in areas of unimproved grassland and can occur in large numbers on southern downland. It shows a marked preference for purple flowers such as Wild Marjoram, Field Scabious, thistles, and knapweeds. Adults may be found roosting halfway down tall grass stems.
Vanessa cardui is a very common migrant that arrives from Africa every summer. Numbers fluctuate annually, depending on the reproduction in Africa.\nThe species is most likely to be seen in open areas were the vegetation has a mosaic structure, such as waste land, fallow ground and pasture land.\nit uses various species of Carduus, Arctium and Cirsium both as larval food plant and as a source of nectar.\n\nThis is a common Migration Butterfly in the Netherlands.
A Union Flag (sometimes known as the Union Jack, the flag of the United Kingdom), flies in a property on the coast of South Wales. The coast in the distance is England. This estuary is extremely dangerous for skippers who dont know it and many ships have come to grief; it has one of the biggest dialy tidal rises and falls in the world.
A closeup shot of Nustera distigma, a species of beetle of the Cerambycidae family
Old world swallowtail (Papilio machaon)
Parnassius Apollo on the flower
One of Britain's most common medium-sized butterflies, a small tortoiseshell (Aglais urtica) is seen here resting in morning sunshine. It is perched on a cow parsley flower, of which more are visible in the soft-focus background. The soft-focus areas give space for text.
A red admiral butterfly photographed in Saaremaa, Estonia
The Saint George's Cross flag in the wind, with the word 'England' superimposed.
Insect
Beautiful Apollo (Parnassius apollo) resting on a Echium vulgare, known as viper's bugloss.
National flags of UK, USA and France against blue sky
Vanessa cardui is a very common migrant that arrives from Africa every summer. Numbers fluctuate annually, depending on the reproduction in Africa.\nThe species is most likely to be seen in open areas were the vegetation has a mosaic structure, such as waste land, fallow ground and pasture land.\nit uses various species of Carduus, Arctium and Cirsium both as larval food plant and as a source of nectar.\n\nThis is a common Migration Butterfly in the Netherlands.
small tortoiseshell collecting nectar from a flower
A sharp-tailed Leafcutter Bee, Coelioxys, gathers pollen from a flower in autumn in the Laurentian forest.
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