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Enjoying nectar, a burrowing bee and a tiny checker spotted skipper butterfly pollinates a sunflower during summer in Denver, Colorado.

White, or tropical skippered butterfly in Cuba.

The Variable Checkerspot or Chalcedon Checkerspot (Euphydryas chalcedona) is a species of butterfly, common in western North America from Alaska to Baja California and from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. Yosemite National Park, California. Nymphalidae.

A long-tailed skipper butterfly feeds on nectar from a wildflower in Florida Keys

Silver-spotted skipper forages a butterfly shrub.

29 july 2024, Basse Yutz, Yutz, Thionville Portes de France, Moselle, Lorraine, Grand Est, France. It's summer. On the edge of a path that has been washed away by heavy rain, the ground is bare. A Grizzled Skipper has landed on the ground. The butterfly's wings are wide open. They are brown and spotted with white. The insect's body is hairy, its antennae are club-shaped.

Potanthus omaha, commonly known as the lesser dart, is a species of skipper butterflies.

A bronze flat butterfly feeding on everlasting daisies.

$Pyrgus malvae, the grizzled skipper, is a butterfly species from the family Hesperiidae. It is a small skipper (butterfly) with a chequered pattern on its wings that appears to be black and white. This butterfly can be found throughout Europe and is common in central and southern regions of England. The butterfly prefers three major types of habitat: woodland, grassland, and industrial. Eggs are laid on plants that will provide warmth and proper nutrition for development, such as A. euphoria. As larvae, their movement is usually restricted to a single plant, on which they will build tents, unless they move onto a second host plant. Larvae then spin cocoons, usually on the last host plant they have occupied, where they remain until spring. Upon emerging as adult butterflies, grizzled skippers are quite active during the day and tend to favour blue or violet-coloured plants for food. They also possess multiple methods of communication; for example, vibrations are used to communicate with ants, and chemical secretions play a role in mating. Exhibiting territorial behaviour, males apply perching and patrolling strategies to mate with a desired female.\nHabitat: \nAlthough grizzled skippers occupy three major forms of habitats, they tend to settle in environments with spring nectar plants, larval food plants (agrimony, creeping cinquefoil, wild strawberry, tormentil), ranker vegetation, and edges with scrub or woodland. Host plants are from the family Rosaceae with a focus on Agrimonia eupatoria as well as Potentilla. \nFlight Season: \nGrizzled skippers produce one brood per season and are in flight from the middle of March to the middle of July. \n\nThis Picture is made during a Vacation in Bulgaria in May 2018.$

A vibrant Mormon fritillary butterfly rests atop yellow flowers, feeding on nectar, with its orange wings contrasting beautifully against the greens and yellows of the Colorado Rocky Mountain landscape.

Water Snow flat Butterfly, Tagiades litigiosa ,Kudremukh Wildlife Sanctuary, Karnataka India

Blue Pierrot Butterfly was clicked using Mobile Macro photography . These are the images shot on iphone12 with a macro lens.

Common Checkered-Skipper Butterfly (pyrgus communis)

Polites peckius, the Peck's skipper, is a North American butterfly in the family Hesperiidae, subfamily Hesperiinae.

Spreading his wings on a Mount Falcon trail, the Colorado state butterfly, a Colorado hairstreak warms himself in the sun on cool summer morning in Morrison.

Detailed closeup on a Red underwing skipper butterfly, Spialia sertorius sitting on a yellow thistle flower

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.

Araschnia levana Map Butterfly Insect. Digitally Enhanced Photograph.

Silver-spotted skipper butterfly, drinking nectar and pollinating flowers. Macro close-up

Apodemia virgulti Behr's Metalmark in Camarillo, Camarillo

Warming himself in the morning sun, a tailed blue butterfly perches in Roxborough State Park in Littleton Colorado.

A Western Pine Elfin butterfly (Callophrys eryphon) perched on a tree

An Hobomok Skipper butterfly pauses on a leaf in the Canadian boreal forest.

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