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Bracketed image - 48 shots - of a butterfly on a bare wall.

A great Spangled Fritillary feeds on butterfly weed.

The well-marked butterfly on the white flowers of the hawthorn bush

Silver-spotted Skipper (Epargyreus clarus) feeding on Wild Bergamot on a mid-summer afternoon at Clarence Schock Memorial Park in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.

nine-spotted moth or yellow belted burnet (Amata phegea)

The hummingbird hawk-moth hovering over flower (Macroglossum stellatarum). The moth in its natural habitat, on Buddleja davidii, also called summer lilac, butterfly-bush. High quality photo

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.

California Crescent Butterfly, Marine Headlands, California

Brown Argus butterfly on a blade of grass in a nature reserve. Stukeley Meadows Nature Reserve Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.

A Bordered Patch butterfly perched on a flower head and covered in dew at the National Butterfly Center.

$Brenthis daphne, the marbled fritillary, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.\nDescription:\nBrenthis daphne has a wingspan of 30–44 millimeters. Wings are rather rounded, the basic color of the upper side of the forewings is bright orange, with an incomplete black marginal band. The underside of the hindwings have a yellowish postdiscal band and the marginal area is completely suffused with purple, with a marble effect (hence the common name). The quadrangular patch on the underside hindwing is partially shaded orange pink to outer side. The chrysalis has two dorsal rows of thorns with bright spots and a bright metallic shine.\nThis species is very similar to the lesser marbled fritillary (Brenthis ino), but the latter is slightly smaller and the coloration of said patch is completely yellow.\nBiology:\nThe butterfly flies from late May to early August depending on the location. The eggs are laid separately in July on the leaves of the host plants. The larvae feed on brambles (Rubus fruticosus), raspberry (Rubus idaeus), Rubus caesius, Rubus sachalinensis, Sanguisorba officinalis and Filipendula species, while adults usually feed on nectar from brambles, thistles and other flowers. This species is univoltine. It overwinters at the caterpillar stage in the egg shell. \nDistribution and habitat:\nThis widespread species is present in the Palearctic ecozone from the southern parts of the continental Europe (northern Spain, southern France, Germany, Italy and eastwards to Slovakia and Greece), up to Caucasus, western Siberia. It prefers warm and sunny forest edges, woodland and bushy areas where the host plants grow, at an elevation of 75–1,750 meters above sea level (source Wikipedia).\n\nThis Picture is made during a Vacation in Bulgaria in May 2018.$

Brenthis hecate Twin-spot fritillary beautiful orange and black butterfly depending on the first rays of the morning sun natural light

The hummingbird hawkmoth is resident all around Mediterranean countries, and across Central Asia to Japan. Many thousands regularly migrate northward in Europe in the spring. There is also evidence of a return migration in the autumn.

Hummingbird clearwing moth (Hemaris thysbe) hovering at butterfly bush (Buddleia davidii), with the focus on its spiraled, pollen-covered proboscis. Taken in a Connecticut flower garden, summer.

Pearl Crescent butterfly resting on a grass stalk

Meadow Brown butterfly (Maniola jurtina)

. Shallow depth of field. nature background. Hover fly feeding on a flower

Butterfly Marsh Fritillary. Euphydryas aurinia.

green background and red butterfly, Pearl-bordered Fritillar, Boloria euphrosyne

A brown butterfly with yellow-green eyes sips nectar from a yellow 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.

A beautiful brown butterfly sits on a blooming oregano.

Peacock butterfly on a leaf in Gosforth Park Nature Reserve.

A grass skipper butterfly (Aeromachus inachus) visits a pink-white flower (Eupatorium japonicum), one of the many wildflowers on Rebun Island in the far north of Japan

Blue butterfly on stonecrop, Summer in the Eifel,Germnay.

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