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Beautiful butterfly is on multi colored flower in nature.

A selective focus shot of southern brown argus feeding on wild thyme

Purple flowers and butterflies in bushes

blue butterfly sitting on a pink flower head

Small common blue female butterfly resting on top of a Snake weed( Persicaria bistorta) flower head.

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

Beautiful butterfly pollinates flowers in the garden in spring or summer

Papilio machaon, the Old World swallowtail, is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae.

Large Skipper butterfly on Oregano flower.

The beautiful Lesser Marbled Fritillary Butterfly (Brenthis ino) on flowering Lemon thyme (Thymus citriodorus ). Uppland, Sweden

Close-up of orange butterfly in lavender field.

This is a picture taken Kumamoto, Japan.

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

$Achillea millefolium, commonly known as White Yarrow or Common Yarrow, is a graceful perennial flower that produces an abundance of huge, flat clusters, packed with creamy-white flowers. They are born on tall stems atop an aromatic, green, fern-like foliage. Both flowers and foliage are attractive and long lasting, making White Yarrow a wonderful garden plant and a great choice for prairie or meadow plantings.\nIt is a rhizomatous, spreading, upright to mat-forming. Cultivars extend the range of flower colors to include pink, red, cream, yellow and bicolor pastels.$

Close up of Butterflies in a british flower meadow surrounded by plants

$Pyrgus malvae, the grizzled skipper, is a butterfly species from the family Hesperiidae. It is a small skipper (butterfly) with a chequered pattern on its wings that appears to be black and white. This butterfly can be found throughout Europe and is common in central and southern regions of England. The butterfly prefers three major types of habitat: woodland, grassland, and industrial. Eggs are laid on plants that will provide warmth and proper nutrition for development, such as A. euphoria. As larvae, their movement is usually restricted to a single plant, on which they will build tents, unless they move onto a second host plant. Larvae then spin cocoons, usually on the last host plant they have occupied, where they remain until spring. Upon emerging as adult butterflies, grizzled skippers are quite active during the day and tend to favour blue or violet-coloured plants for food. They also possess multiple methods of communication; for example, vibrations are used to communicate with ants, and chemical secretions play a role in mating. Exhibiting territorial behaviour, males apply perching and patrolling strategies to mate with a desired female.\nHabitat: \nAlthough grizzled skippers occupy three major forms of habitats, they tend to settle in environments with spring nectar plants, larval food plants (agrimony, creeping cinquefoil, wild strawberry, tormentil), ranker vegetation, and edges with scrub or woodland. Host plants are from the family Rosaceae with a focus on Agrimonia eupatoria as well as Potentilla. \nFlight Season: \nGrizzled skippers produce one brood per season and are in flight from the middle of March to the middle of July. \n\nThis Picture is made during a long weekend in the South of Belgium in June 2006.$

Black horehound flowers with butterfly close up

A view of a butterfly at a lake near Allstedt in Saxony-Anhalt

Pieris rapae, the Cabbage White Butterfly, resting on a small flower.

The butterfly cabbage rests on lavender flowers

White cabbage butterfly feeding on lavender flower

two white painted butterflies fly over purple flowers in a summer sunny meadow

Beautiful butterfly is on multi colored flower in garden.

Abstract of a Small copper butterfly and a Large Skipper butterfly over Oregano plants.

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