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A great Spangled Fritillary feeds on butterfly weed.
Lepidoptera insect on wild plants, North China
A forest-dwelling Common Posy resting on a stalk. It often observed with its tails in motion to serve as a decoy to fool predators into mistaking the tails for its antennae.Taken in Singapore.http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/2382/lycaenidae/ravindra.htm
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.
A butterfly pollinates an orange ball tree flower (Latin: Buddleja globosa).
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.
Gulf fritillary butterfly with orange, white, and black markings is seeking pollen on a purple flower against a blurred green leaf background.
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.\nAdults can be seen looking for nectar in gardens, parks and on roadside verges. \nThe caterpillars feed on the smaller plants of Urtica dioica in very sunny, open spots.\nThe species flies in two generations from the beginning of March until the end of October. The adult butterfly hibernates in cool, dark places, such as barns, attics, or hollow trees.\n\nThe Picture is made along a small Brook in the Eifel (Germany) in halfway August 2021.
The brown butterfly clearly showing the distinctive pattern on the underside of its wing.
A Fire-rim Tortoiseshell butterfly, gathers pollen from a summer lilac flowers in autumn.
Gulf Fritillary butterfly feeding at garden
Battus philenor, the pipevine swallowtail or blue swallowtail, is a swallowtail butterfly found in North America and Central America. This butterfly is black with iridescent-blue hindwings. Sonoran Desert near Tucson, Arizona.
tortoiseshell butterfly on a flower
Great spangled fritillary, fluttering over summer wildflowers (joe-pye weed) as it feeds, with the focus on the eyes and head. The butterfly's striking pattern inspires its name. The Latin word fritillus means chessboard or dice box.
Meadow fritillary (Melitaea parthenoides) butterfly resting on flower with bright green background
Brenthis daphne, the marbled fritillary, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.\nDescription:\nBrenthis daphne has a wingspan of 30–44 millimeters. Wings are rather rounded, the basic color of the upper side of the forewings is bright orange, with an incomplete black marginal band. The underside of the hindwings have a yellowish postdiscal band and the marginal area is completely suffused with purple, with a marble effect (hence the common name). The quadrangular patch on the underside hindwing is partially shaded orange pink to outer side. The chrysalis has two dorsal rows of thorns with bright spots and a bright metallic shine.\nThis species is very similar to the lesser marbled fritillary (Brenthis ino), but the latter is slightly smaller and the coloration of said patch is completely yellow.\nBiology:\nThe butterfly flies from late May to early August depending on the location. The eggs are laid separately in July on the leaves of the host plants. The larvae feed on brambles (Rubus fruticosus), raspberry (Rubus idaeus), Rubus caesius, Rubus sachalinensis, Sanguisorba officinalis and Filipendula species, while adults usually feed on nectar from brambles, thistles and other flowers. This species is univoltine. It overwinters at the caterpillar stage in the egg shell. \nDistribution and habitat:\nThis widespread species is present in the Palearctic ecozone from the southern parts of the continental Europe (northern Spain, southern France, Germany, Italy and eastwards to Slovakia and Greece), up to Caucasus, western Siberia. It prefers warm and sunny forest edges, woodland and bushy areas where the host plants grow, at an elevation of 75–1,750 meters above sea level (source Wikipedia).\n\nThis Picture is made during a Vacation in Bulgaria in May 2018.
Ochlodes sylvanus Large Skipper Butterfly Insect. Digitally Enhanced Photograph.
butterfly on the flower in spring
macro shot of blue butterfly with soft green yellow background
Lepidoptera insects in the wild, North China
Red spotted admiral butterfly sitting on spring thistle
Orange tip butterfly (Anthocharis cardamines), Norfolk, UK
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The map, Araschnia levana a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae
Butterfly on Globe Amaranth flower.
Rush veneer
An Orange-tip Butterfly resting on foliage
Vanessa tameamea AKA Kamehameha butterfly
Tortoiseshell butterfly on chive flowers,
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