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This beautiful and elegant butterfly is a change from a pretty scary caterpillar, it takes a few days to process a caterpillar that was initially so frightening into a beautiful butterfly, that is the power of God that is extraordinary.

Polites themistocles butterfly collecting pollen on the yellow flower of Sphagneticola trilobata in the garden

$Appearance:\nIt has a rusty orange colour to the wings, upper body and the tips of the antennae. The body is silvery white below and it has a wingspan of 25–30 mm. This butterfly is very similar in appearance to the Essex skipper (Thymelicus lineola). In the small skipper, the undersides of the tips of the antennae are yellow orange, whereas they are black in the Essex skipper. The black area on the lower edge of the upper wings also differs. Like the other orange grass skippers the male has a distinctive black stripe made up of scent scales.\n\nLife cycle and food plants:\nEggs are laid loosely inside grass sheaths of the caterpillars food plants from July to August. The newly hatched caterpillars eat their own eggshell before entering hibernation individually in a protective cocoon of a grass sheath sealed with silk. In the spring the caterpillar begins feeding. The favoured food plant is Yorkshire fog (Holcus lanatus), although other recorded food plants include timothy (Phleum pratense), creeping soft grass (Holcus mollis), false brome (Brachypodium sylvaticum), meadow foxtail (Alopecurus pratensis) and cock's foot (Dactylis glomerata). The caterpillars pupate near the base of the food plant in June with the first adults on the wing at the end of June, a week or two before the first Essex skippers. They are strongly attracted to purple flowers such as thistles and knapweeds.\n\nDistribution:\nThis butterfly's range includes much of Europe (east to the Urals, including Ireland, Britain and Scandinavia, and includes north Africa and the Middle East. It is typically occurring where grass has grown tall.\n\nThis Picture is made during a Long Weekend in the South of Belgium in June 2019.$

A fiery skipper butterfly (Hylephila phyleus) feeds on a yellow daisy, July 17, 2021, in Mobile, Alabama.

argentinian jumping butterfly perched on a purple zinnia flower

A small heath butterfly resting on a daisy.

Skipper Butterfly feeding on the nectar of a Dandylion flower

A skipper visits a zinnia blossom while collecting nectar in Maryland.

skipper butterfly on orange cosmos flower

Small Moth Resting on a Vibrant Orange Marigold Flower in Full Bloom

$Zinnia is a genus of about 20 species of annual plants of daisy family. Zinnia has a bright, solitary, daisy-like flower-head on a single, erect stem and bloom in a wide variety of colors with large, mixed flowers.\nThe butterfly in the photo is called Indian fritillary butterfly.$

Close-up of two Marigold wildflowers, growing in a patch of wilderness. A butterfly rests on top of one of the flowers.

Yellow Sulphur Butterfly and Fall Flowers

A brown moth sitting on a yellow petal of French marigold. Tagetes patula

Large Skipper butterfly on Oregano flower.

Ochlodes sylvanus Large Skipper Butterfly Insect. Digitally Enhanced Photograph.

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