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Male Gonepteryx rhamni, commonly named the common brimstone feeding on the nectar of purple loosestrife.

Beautiful yellow butterfly sat down on a flower and drinking nectar.

Common brimstone butterfly - Gonepteryx rhamni sucks with its trunk nectar from a Carthusian pink blossom - Dianthus carthusianorum

Close-up of a beautiful yellow butterfly on a coneflower. The Latin name is Echinacea purpurea. Echinacea purpurea is medicinal

Gonepteryx rhamni butterfly sitting on Liatris spicata deep purple flowering flowers, beautiful animal with yellow white wings

An image of a Brimstone Butterfly nectarine on foliage

Close shot of a male brimstone butterfly feeding on the nectar of purple loosestrife.

Macro of Gonepteryx rhamni, the common brimstone, yellow-green butterfly

Common brimstone butterfly - Gonepteryx rhamni sucks with its trunk nectar from a giant fleabane blossom - Inula magnifica

Gonepteryx rhamni on top of a purple buddleia blooming flowerhead.

Common Brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni) butterfly foraging on Silene compata flowers

Gonepteryx rhamni (known as the common brimstone)

Light green butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni sitting on white flower. Butterfly Common brimstone is butterfly of Pieridae family feeding on white flower

$Description: The larvae of the Brimstone feeds on the leaves of Buckthorn and Alder Buckthorn. The egg is approximately 2.5mm tall and is skittle shaped as are all eggs laid by Butterflies of the Pieridae family. They can be found on fresh leaf growth on the larval food plant during the spring and are easy to find.\n\nThe caterpillars feed singularly on the food plant and are easily found lying along the mid-rib of the upperside of a leaf. It is remarkably well camouflaged being the same green as the leaves of its food plant.\n\nThe chrysalis is attached by the tail to a stick or branch of the foodplant by silk and a silken thread as a support girdle. The pupal stage lasts around 14 days. The Chrysalis changes colour when the butterfly is about to emerge.\n\nWarm sunny days in early March brings the Brimstone out from hibernation but since it is such a long-lived species butterflies may be seen throughout the year even though there is only one brood per year. The bright rich yellow of the male Brimstone butterfly cannot be confused with any other butterfly. The female however is a very pale yellow almost white in colour and can be confused at a distance for a Large White. The distinctive shape of the Brimstone and the intricate veining of the wings make it a remarkably beautiful and graceful butterfly.\n\nThe Brimstone is also one of the longest living of Butterflies and is the only species outside the Nymphalidae family to hibernate as an adult butterfly.$

Common brimstone butterfly, Gonepteryx rhamni, perching on plant

Butterfly on Zinnia Flower with Green Background

Brimstone butterfly on the purple-coloured thistle flower. Gonepteryx rhamni.

summer day: single common brimstone butterfly ( Gonepteryx rhamni) on top of a Buddleia plant.

Butterfly in nature; Scientific name; Gonepteryx cleopatra -Cleopatra

A small heath butterfly resting on a daisy.

Brimstone butterfly on pink clover blossom. Close-up butterfly in natural environment. Insect collects nectar on a flower. Gonepteryx rhamni.

brimstone butterfly on a cabbage thistle flower

Beautiful butterfly is on multi colored flower in nature.

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