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Vanessa cardui - Painted lady butterfly - Distelfalter\nBeautiful butterfly on a thistle flower. Europe.
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.
Lepidoptera insects in the wild, North China
A Butterfly in an English country garden.
A beautiful butterfly of a pink flower
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.
Hesperiidae butterfly and purple globe amaranth
Argynnis paphia
23 July 2021, Basse Yutz, Yutz, Thionville Portes de France, Moselle, Lorraine, Grand Est, France. In a meadow, a Silver-washed Fritillary gathers a thistle flower.
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.
Macro photo of a butterfly of the species HIpparchia statilinus, also called tree grayling, of the nimphalidae family.
Close-up image of a White Peacock Butterfly
Butterfly sits on a flower
Vanessa cardui is a very common migrant that arrives from Africa every summer. Numbers fluctuate annually, depending on the reproduction in Africa.\nThe 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.\nit uses various species of Carduus, Arctium and Cirsium both as larval food plant and as a source of nectar.\n\nThis is a common Migration Butterfly in the Netherlands.
Butterfly perching on a thistle
Argynnis paphia
Essex Skipper on a Thistle
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.
Flowering milk thistle and butterfly hives on a flower
Male Monarch Butterfly
Insect
Butterfly on Wild Flower, Natural Background,
a yellow butterfly sitting on a Pasqueflower.
The Painted Lady is a long-distance migrant, which causes the most spectacular butterfly migrations observed in Britain and Ireland.
a macro photo of potanthus niobe a kind of skipper butterfly that are endemic in the Philippines
The Painted Lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) is one of the most widespread butterfly species in the world, found on every continent except Antarctica and South America. Easily recognized by its orange, black, and white patterned wings, it is a strong flier and known for its long-distance migrations, sometimes traveling thousands of kilometers from North Africa to Europe. The caterpillars feed on a wide range of host plants, including thistles and mallows. Unlike many butterflies, the Painted Lady doesn't hibernate but migrates seasonally, often in massive, visually striking swarms.
Hummingbird hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) flying over thistle
yellow butterflies and a huge insect on bright thistle flowers on the seashore
Argynnis paphia - Silver-washed Fritillary butterfly on a thistle flower
Ochlodes sylvanus is a common resident in the Netherlands. Its distribution hardly changed during the 20th century, although during 1990 there is a steep decline, and is therefore classified as susceptible on the Red List of 2006.\nHabitat: The Large skipper occurs in all sorts of rough, grassy, preferably damp places with some form of shelter.\nFeeding Plants: Various species of broad-leaved grasses serve as larval Food Plant.\nFlying Season: The species flies in one generation from mid-June until the beginning of August, and hibernates as a half-grown caterpillar.\n\nThis is a common Species in the described Habitats.
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