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Small Skipper ( Thymelicus sylvestris ) perched on a thistle

Ochlodes sylvanus Large Skipper Butterfly Insect. Digitally Enhanced Photograph.

Macrophotography of a Delaware Skipper (Anatrytone logan) on a thistle flower.

Checkerboard Butterfly (Melanargia galathea) sits on ball flower, Upper Austria, Austria, Europe

European Peacock (Inachis io), a colorful butterfly with Verbena, argentinisches Eisenkraut.

Two six spot burnet moths and single bumble bee on pink burdock flower in grass meadow

Holly blue butterfly in macro closeup, common insect specie from Eurasia

An image of a Red Admiral feeding on a thistle head

Bright butterfly on a flower. Beautiful wings close-up. Insect in nature. Summer sunny scene. Floral background and butterfly. Wing patterns

Anna's Blue (Plebejus anna) butterfly sitting on a Seaside Buckwheat (Eriogonum latifolium) wildflower, Marin Headlands, San Francisco bay area, California

A blue argus butterfly forages a gomphrena in a park.

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.

Beautiful Orange Butterfly and Bees over Eryngium Alpinum, the alpine sea holly, alpine eryngo or queen of the Alps an herbaceous perennial plant in the family Apiaceae.

Large Skipper butterfly on Oregano flower.

The Orange-tip is a common resident in the Netherlands. It is mostly find either Cardamine pratensis in damp grasslands, or on Alliaria petiolata in light shaded woodland edges.

Meadow Brown butterfly- Maniola jurtina sucks nectar with its proboscis from the blossom of the Cirsium arvense the creeping thistle or field thistle

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The Marbled White is a distinctive and attractive black and white butterfly, unlikely to be mistaken for any other species. In July it flies in areas of unimproved grassland and can occur in large numbers on southern downland. It shows a marked preference for purple flowers such as Wild Marjoram, Field Scabious, thistles, and knapweeds. Adults may be found roosting halfway down tall grass stems.

Great spangled fritillary, fluttering over summer wildflowers (joe-pye weed) as it feeds, with the focus on the eyes and head. Note the proboscis inside the flower. The butterfly's striking pattern inspires its name. The Latin word fritillus means chessboard or dice box.

Monarch butterfly closeup on purple coneflower in garden

$The hummingbird hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) is a species of hawk moth found across temperate regions of Eurasia. The species is named for its similarity to hummingbirds, as they feed on the nectar of tube-shaped flowers using their long proboscis while hovering in the air; this resemblance is an example of convergent evolution. \nLife cycle:\nTwo or more broods are produced each year. The adult may be encountered at any time of the year, especially in the south of the range, where there may be three or four broods. It overwinters as an adult in a crevice among rocks, trees, and buildings. On very warm days it may emerge to feed in mid-winter. Unlike other moths, they have no sexual dimorphism in the size of their antennal lobes.\nHabitat and host plants:\nHummingbird hawk-moths can be easily seen in gardens, parks, meadows, bushes, and woodland edge, where the preferred food plants grow (honeysuckle, red valerian and many others). \nTheir larvae usually feed on bedstraws or madders (Rubia) but have been recorded on other Rubiaceae and Centranthus, Stellaria, and Epilobium. \nAdults are particularly fond of nectar-rich flowers with a long and narrow calyx, since they can then take advantage of their long proboscis and avoid competition from other insects. Flowers with longer tubes typically present the feeding animal a higher nectar reward. Proboscis length is thought to have been evolutionarily impacted by the length of flower feeding tubes.] Examples of such plants include Centranthus, Jasminum, Buddleia, Nicotiana, Primula, Viola, Syringa, Verbena, Echium, Phlox, and Stachys. \nDistribution:\nThe hummingbird hawk-moth is distributed throughout the northern Old World from Portugal to Japan, but it breeds mainly in warmer climates (southern Europe, North Africa, and points east). Three generations are produced in a year in Spain. \n\nThis Species can be seen in different Habitats (inc. Gardens) in the Netherlands in Summer Season.$

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