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A beautiful brown butterfly sits on a blooming oregano.
The photo shows orange/yellow cosmos flowers and a butterfly called Argyreus hyperbius / Indian fritillary.\nNative to Mexico, cosmos sulphureus which is commonly called yellow cosmos is now grown all over including North America, Asia and Europe. This annual plant produces daisy-like flowers with flower colors ranging from yellow to orange to scarlet red. Orange cosmos normally blooms in summer and early autumn in Japan with butterflies circling around the flowers.
Close up view of Vanessa Atalanta above sprouts.
Beautiful Zygaenidae on Field Scabious. Was seen in the European Alps in summer.
Pyrgus sidea on the flower
An Eastern Tiger Swallowtail in Dover, Tennessee
Distribution: Inachis io is a very common resident in the Netherlands. The Dutch population is sometimes supplemented by wandering individuals. The species occurs nearly all over the Netherlands, the butterfly being found in places with nectar-rich flowers in a wide variety of habitats.\nFood Plants: The larval food plant is Stinging Nettle (Urtica dioica). The female butterfly lays her eggs on plants growing in the half shadow in damp places.\nFlying Season: Peacock Butterfly flies in one generation from mid-July until the end of August. It hibernates as an adult, and the butterflies fly from the end of March until the beginning of June.
A Butterfly papilio machaon on the grass in Summer
American Lady butterfly photographed on Gayfeather at the H.E. Flanagan Prairie in Western Arkansas.
Pearlbutterfly dancing on flower
Tiny white butterfly on a flower head
butterfly on the flower
Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly sitting on a yellow flower (Papilio glaucus) against a blurred green background.
Closeup Pyronia butterfly feeding on flower seen from above
Tot 30-39mm, Ab 25-32mm, HW 19-23mm.\nOur most delicate Lestes, which is normally easily separated by its statue and coloration, although some Iberian populations recall L. barbarous.\nHabitat: A wide variety of seasonally dry shallow and reedy waters in the south, becoming more critical in the north-west, where it is most abundant in heath and bog lakes with peat moss (Sphagnum) and rushes (Juncus).\nFlight Season: Northern populations mostly emerge in July, flying into November.\nDistribution: Widespread in Europe, although seldom the dominant Lestes species. Distribution recall L. barbarous, and also tends to wander like that species, though rarely in similarly great numbers.\n\nThis Species is to be seen in the describe Habitats, but not as common as L. sponsa in the Netherlands.
Photographed this lovely Spicebush Swallowtail Butterfly at Big Rocky Run Creek, Ellanor C Lawrence Park, Fairfax County, Virginia.
The butterfly landed on the leaves
Butterfly
Painted Lady perched on flower head
Polyommatus dorylas  on the flower
Butterfly On Yarrow
Red Admiral Butterfly on a Stinging Nettle
Red Admiral Butterfly
A closeup of the meadow brown butterfly (Maniola jurtina) on a purple flower
Pyronia tithonus is a common resident in the Netherlands and has its centre of occurrence in the North-Eastern and Southern Part of the Netherlands.
European peacock butterfly (Aglais io)
Blue Butterfly Macro
butterfly on the flower in spring
flying butterfly in nature
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