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$Vanessa cardui - Painted lady butterfly - Distelfalter\nBeautiful butterfly on a thistle flower. Europe.$

The Meadow Brown is the most abundant butterfly species in many habitats. Hundreds may be seen together at some sites, flying low over the vegetation

A butterfly sits on a red clover (Trifolium pratense) in bloom on the swedish countryside.

A Butterfly in an English country garden.

Close up of a silver-washed fritillary (Argynnis paphia) butterfly on a purple thistle flowerhead. The largest Central European fritillary butterfly has bright orange upper wings with brown spots.

Zygaena fausta is a member of the family Zygaenidae, the day-flying burnet moths. Its bright aposematic colours of red, white and black on the wings indicate to possible predators such as birds that it is foul tasting or poisonous.

Butterfly on Wild Flower, Natural Background,

A vivid macro photograph of an orange speckled butterfly delicately perched on a blooming wild thistle in Brac, Croatia. The contrasting colors of the butterfly's patterned wings and the vibrant purple and orange thistle create a striking summer nature scene. Captured in natural daylight with a soft bokeh background, this image is ideal for themes related to biodiversity, pollination, insects, Mediterranean flora, or seasonal change.

The Painted Lady is a long-distance migrant, which causes the most spectacular butterfly migrations observed in Britain and Ireland.

Flower, Macrophotography, Red, Triglav national park, Slovenia, Julian alps

Lepidoptera insects in the wild, North China

$Plusia festucae (gold spot) is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found throughout the Palearctic ecozone from Ireland to Japan.\nDescription:\nThe wingspan is 34–46 mm. Forewing deep golden brown, with a golden metallic sheen at base of costa, on inner margin of median area, and on an oblique patch before apex; lines all oblique, dark brown; veins dark brown; at base of vein 2 a large silvery rounded blotch, with a smaller, more elongate, one beyond it; the lowest streak of the apical blotch, below vein 6, and a spot at base of costa are also silvery; hindwing bronzy fuscous, with pinkish fringe.\nBiology:\nLarva green; dorsal line dark green, edged with white; subdorsal and lateral lines white; spiracular yellowish; head green. The larvae feed on Carex, Sparganium erectum, Iris pseudacorus and Alisma. Pupates in a whitish cocoon on the underside of a blade of grass, doubled over for the purpose. \nThe moth flies from June to September depending on the location (source Wikipedia). \n\nThis is a common Species in the Netherlands.$

a yellow butterfly sitting on a Pasqueflower.

a macro photo of potanthus niobe a kind of skipper butterfly that are endemic in the Philippines

top view of an Amata phegea on a nice colorful blossom

Silybum marianum or milk thistle, blessed milkthistle, Marian thistle, Mary thistle, Saint Marys thistle, Mediterranean milk thistle, Scotch thistle, medicine and pharmaceutical use, butterfly.

A mother-of-pearl butterfly on a flower. Beautiful bright background.

Great White angel butterfly, Pieris brassicae feeding on the plant

A beautiful, elegant, bright butterfly with pattern (Zygaena sogdiana) sitting on a flower in summer, sunny day close-up

Beautiful orange butterfly feeding on the thistle flower. Summer scenery in meadow near forest in Latvia, Northern Europe.

butterfly peacock on purple flower thistle ruffled in summer, Poland

Close-up image of a White Peacock Butterfly

Brimstone Butterfly on a flowering thistle

Flowering milk thistle and butterfly hives on a flower

Different plants attract a wide variety of insect species to help spread their pollen. Photo taken at Kalvebod Fælled, on the southern tip of Amager Island, in a large nature reserve located about 30 minutes from downtown Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark.

Vanessa cardui is a very common migrant that arrives from Africa every summer. Numbers fluctuate annually, depending on the reproduction in Africa.The species is most likely to be seen in open areas were the vegetation has a mosaic structure, such as waste land, fallow ground and pasture land.it uses various species of Carduus, Arctium and Cirsium both as larval food plant and as a source of nectar.This is a common Migration Butterfly in the Netherlands.

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