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Bracketed image - 48 shots - of a butterfly on a bare wall.

This image offers a detailed view of a butterfly at rest on a leaf, highlighting the complex patterns and colors on its wings. The eye-like spots and varied shades of brown, tan, and white are set against the soft green backdrop of the leaf, showcasing the butterfly’s delicate structure and the antenna’s fine detail.

Looking down on a tiger longwing butterfly

buttrfly garden: single malachite btterfly resting on a leaf ,wrapped in sunlight.

Lepidoptera insects in the wild, North China

Silver-bordered fritillary (Boloria selene) on waterhemp

The dark green fritillary butterfly collects nectar on flower. Speyeria aglaja, previously known as Argynnis aglaja is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.

Butterfly drinking juice from red flower - animal behavior.

Close-up of a beautiful butterfly. Viewed at Butterfly Gardens located in Victoria, British Columbia.

Common Blue or Polyommatus icarus, Small blue butterfly

A small butterfly head with thick round shiny black eyes that has a net like texture with 2 antennas on the front of the head perched on a leaf

A small plant just blooming on the woodland floor.

A swallowtail butterfly spreads its wings and sits on a white background.

Moths on leaves in nature, North China Plain

A butterfly melitaea didyma on a dandelion flower in spring

Monarch butterfly isolated on white background

Colorful butterfly on a white table. Dried insect with colorful wings. White background.

$Melitaea didyma, the spotted fritillary or red-band fritillary, is a Palearctic butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.\nDescription:\nMelitaea didyma is a medium-sized butterfly with a wingspan reaching 35–50 millimeters The overside of the wings is a bright orange-brown with dark brown markings arranged in rows, which are quite variable in quantity and size. Sometimes the color of the females is a duller orange, shaded with grey-green. The underside of the wings is chequered pale yellow and pale orange. M. didyma has seasonal forms and sexual dimorphism. The male is fiery red, with a narrow dentate black distal border and a moderate number of small black dots and spots, which are dispersed over the basal half of the wing and end with a short band extending beyond the cell from the costa into the disc. On the underside, which is very abundantly marked with small black dots and hooks, a flexuous sub basal band and a curved submarginal one are situated on a delicately greenish, or yellowish, white ground. In the female the forewing and the anal area of the hindwing are much paler, being moreover dusted with blackish, while the costal half of the hindwing has preserved the red tint : the whole wings are much more abundantly but less prominently marked with black. There occur sometimes specimens with a blue gloss on the upper side. \nBiology:\nThis butterfly flies from March to October depending on the location. This species has two or three generations and overwinters as young caterpillar. \nThe larvae feed on various plants, including Linaria, Plantago lanceolata, Veronica, Centaurea jacea and Digitalis purpurea. \nDistribution:\nIt is found in southern and central Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, central Asia and Siberia. It is absent from northern Europe (England, Ireland, northern France, Germany, Poland and Scandinavia). \nHabitat:\nMelitaea didyma prefers flowery and grassy areas, meadows and roadsides (source Wikipedia).$

Polygonia c-aureum , Linnaeus, A butterfly is gathering honey

$Lantana camara, commonly called lantana or shrub verbena, also known as big-sage, red-sage, white-sage and tick berry, is a species of flowering plant, which is native to Central and South America and has spread to the world. It bears small tubular shaped flowers, which each have four petals forming clusters. The blooming time is from early summer to autumn in temperate areas. Flowers come in many different colors, including red, yellow, white, pink, orange and purple.\nThe butterfly in the photo is Argyreus hyperbius, which is also called Indian fritillary.$

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