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A beautifully coloured small tortoiseshell butterfly with open wings
Close up of a small tortoiseshell (aglais urticae) butterfly pollinating pink garden phlox (phlox paniculata) flowers
tortoiseshell butterfly on a flower
Aglais urticae is a common resident. Migrants are also often seen. Its distribution probably has not changed during the last century. However, the Dutch Monitoring Scheme shows a decline in numbers in the 1990s; the cause is not known.
Butterfly Aglais io, peacock butterfly sitting on the flower of lavender. Selective focus. High quality photo, dark background, copy space
Summer day: single hoverfly on a blooming white queen annes lace
Tortoiseshell butterfly on chive flowers,
Stinging nettle with a Small tortoiseshell butterfly
A black and white butterfly and a small brown beetle feed on a pink flower.
Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) sitting on an oak tree, eating a hazelnut.
Tortoisehell Butterfly on a sunny day.
A Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) in Scotland, UK
A peacock butterfly drinks nectar while sitting on the petals of a pink flower close-up on a dark background.
A sharp-tailed Leafcutter Bee, Coelioxys, gathers pollen from a flower in autumn in the Laurentian forest.
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Watchful Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) standing on a branch in woodland.
Red squirrel sitting in heather, County of Northumberland, England
Dominican Republic flag outdoors
An insect climbing on the stem of a herbaceous plant
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.
A Union Flag (sometimes known as the Union Jack, the flag of the United Kingdom), flies in a property on the coast of South Wales. The coast in the distance is England. This estuary is extremely dangerous for skippers who dont know it and many ships have come to grief; it has one of the biggest dialy tidal rises and falls in the world.
Photo showing a small tortoiseshell butterfly (Latin name: Aglais urticae), pictured feeding on the pollen of a white dahlia flower with dark purple leaves - part of a herbaceous border in a landscaped garden.
A closeup shot of Nustera distigma, a species of beetle of the Cerambycidae family
A Fire-rim Tortoiseshell butterfly visits a gomphrena in early summer.
Aglais io or European Peacock Butterfly or Peacock. Butterfly on flower. A brightly lit red-brown orange butterfly with blue lilac spots on its spread wings sits on purple yellow flowers.
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.
National flags of UK, USA and France against blue sky
Leptura quadrifasciata, the spotted longhorn beetle, is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. \nAdult beetles are 11–20 mm long, black with four more or less continuous transverse yellow bands. In extreme cases the elytra may be almost entirely black. It is found throughout the Northern and Central Palaearctic region. \nLarvae make meandering galleries in various trees, including oak, beech, birch, willow, alder, elder and spruce. The life cycle lasts two or three years.\nThe adults are very common flower-visitors, especially Apiaceae species, feeding on pollen and the nectar (source Wikipedia). \n\nThis is a common Species in the Netherlands on the described Habitats.
small tortoiseshell collecting nectar from a flower
Cornflower close up. Compyloneuro virgula beetle in the foreground.
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