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This shot shows Great Spangled Fritillary (Speyeria cybele) Butterfly on Achillea Millefolium (common yarrow) Wildflower. Other wildflowers surround the butterfly in this beautiful summer scene shot in the mountains of Utah, USA.

butterflies and bugs on yellow wildflowers in spring

A very easy butterfly to photograph when doing a flower macro photography session.

Papilio Glaucus (Eastern Tiger Swallowtail) Butterfly on Purple Penstemon. Spotted in Santa Fe, NM in June.

Eastern tiger swallowtail on a milkweed plant in the Shenandoah national park.

Battus philenor, the pipevine swallowtail or blue swallowtail, is a swallowtail butterfly found in North America and Central America. This butterfly is black with iridescent-blue hindwings. Sonoran Desert near Tucson, Arizona.

This Mormon metalmark female butterfly subspecies is near extinction. Only found in one small strip of sandy terrain in the California Antioch Dunes. The only host plant is Naked Stemmed Buckwheat, also an endangered species. The area is now a NWF refuge closed to the public for conservation.

Tailed copper, Lycaena arota, feeding on the yellow flowers of the Solidago decurrens plant.

A colourful yellow and black winged butterfly exists in an arid environment in the desert near Sedona in Arizona

The two-tailed Swallowtail butterfly sits on a mountain bluebell flower early in the summer wildflower season in the Wasatch Mountains near Park City, Utah.

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

Western Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly on a flower

Orange butterfly feeding on a yellow flower

Viceroy butterfly (a monarch mimic), summer. Smaller than a monarch, with a different vein pattern.

Yellow and Black Butterfly collects pollen from a golden flower

$Clouded Yellow butterfly receiving pollen from a daisy flower called \$

$Argynnis pandora butterfly perched in thistle flower seen from above -\nMariposa Argynnis pandora posada en flor de cardo vista desde arriba$

Polygonia c-album Comma Butterfly Insect. Digitally Enhanced Photograph.

Butterflies and bees on wildflowers gathering nectar and pollen.

Eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly on wild bergamot in a pollinator meadow, midsummer. Taken in Connecticut.

$Lycaena phlaeas is a common resident in the Netherlands. \nHabitat: The species inhabits a variety of places, including rather nutrient-poor, dry grasslands, gardens, roadside verges, Heathland and coastal dunes, generally these are dry areas with sheltered, sunny spots. Surprisingly, however, the highest densities are found in wet, nutrient-poor grassland.\nDistribution: Its distribution hardly changed during the 20th century.\nFlying Season: The Small Copper flies in three generations from the end of April until the end of September and hibernates as a half-grown caterpillar.\n\n\nThis is a quite common species in the described Habitats in the Netherlands.$

A Silver-spotted Skipper butterfly, Epargyreus clarus, feeds from purple flowers in a park in Black River Falls, Wisconsin.

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

Close-up of Painted Lady Butterfly on Rabbit Brush in Fall

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