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Red spotted admiral butterfly sitting on spring thistle

$Butterflies, certainly \$

The blue color of the Common Blue butterfly is less evident when its wings are closed, but a distinct blue hue does show up. The detailed patterns on the wings are a marvel of the artistry of nature. This photographe was taken in the midday sunshine in Southern Quebec in summertime.

Common Commander butterfly feeding on Mikania micrantha Kunth (Mile-a-minute Weed). Butterfly feeding on weeds.

Side view of eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly (female) atop Joe-Pye weed, midsummer. Wings partly open. Facing camera right. Taken in a meadow in Connecticut's northwest hills.

Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) feeding on bull thistle (Cirsium vulgare) inflorescence in summer.

Monarch butterfly on purple aster flower in early autumn

Flowering milk thistle and butterfly hives on a flower

Great Spangled Fritillary (Speyeria cybele) feeding on a flower

Clusters of purple Argentinian vervain, Verbena bonariensis, flowers with a feeding painted lady butterfly, Vanessa cardui, in close up and a background of blurred leaves.

$Vanessa cardui is a very common migrant that arrives from Africa every summer. Numbers fluctuate annually, depending on the reproduction in Africa.\nThe species is most likely to be seen in open areas were the vegetation has a mosaic structure, such as waste land, fallow ground and pasture land.\nit uses various species of Carduus, Arctium and Cirsium both as larval food plant and as a source of nectar.\n\nThis is a common Migration Butterfly in the Netherlands.$

A vertical shot of a dark green fritillary on a flower

Eastern tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) feeding on joe-pye weed in summer, Connecticut, with defocused background. 4:3 format.

Painted lady butterfly feeding on New England Aster flower. It is in the Cynthia group of colorful butterflies and comprises a subgenus of the genus Vanessa in the family Nymphalidae.

Western Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly sitting on purple flower with green background.

A blue argus butterfly forages a gomphrena in a park.

monarch butterfly in flight over milkweed plant

A closeup of a Hypolimnas misippus butterfly on globe amaranth in a field under the sunlight

$Vanessa cardui - Painted lady butterfly - Distelfalter\nBeautiful butterfly on a thistle flower. Europe.$

Painted lady on butterfly bush in a Connecticut state forest, late summer. One of the most widely distributed butterflies in the world.

The Marbled White (Melanargia galathea) on a scabiosa

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