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A great Spangled Fritillary feeds on butterfly weed.

The blue color of the Common Blue butterfly is less evident when its wings are closed, but a distinct blue hue does show up. The detailed patterns on the wings are a marvel of the artistry of nature. This photographe was taken in the midday sunshine in Southern Quebec in summertime.

Drinking up nectar from milkweed flowers, a wild, mourning cloak butterfly feeds in Waterton Canyon near the South Platte River in Littleton, Colorado.

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

Butterflies and bees on wildflowers gathering nectar and pollen.

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.

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly pollinating flowers

Butterfly - Pipevine Swallowtail Perched on Bee Balm

Large Skipper butterfly on Oregano flower.

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

Head-on view of a white peacock butterfly on a leaf

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

Great spangled fritillary seeming to smile as its proboscis goes into a flower of joe-pye weed. Sharply focused on the eyes and head. The butterfly's striking pattern inspires its name. The Latin word fritillus means chessboard or dice box. The spangles are the silvery white spots on the underwings.

Yellow swallow-tail butterflies on white butterfly bush against a green roof.

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

Orange and white butterfly on pink flowers of Hemp-agrimony. Eupatorium cannabinum plant in bloom with Melitaea diamina

Front view of a painted lady butterfly sucking on flowering origanum.

small pearl bordered fritillary close up

$Brazilian Insect\nThis insects is very rare in brazilian savannah.$

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.

American lady butterfly feeding on butterfly weed in Oklahoma.

A beautiful brown butterfly sits on a blooming oregano.

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.

A close up of the butterfly (Limenitis populi ussuriensis) on moss.

A beautiful aphrodite butterfly on the blossoms of a buddleia bush.

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