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Transposition to pencil or charcoal drawing of a gonglondrine tail butterfly to color or use as a coloring model

A monarch caterpillar, hanging upside down, ready to transform into a chrysalis. It's skin is beginning to split.

$Aporia crataegi, the black-veined white, is a large butterfly of the family Pieridae. A. crataegi is widespread and common. Its range extends from northwest Africa in the west to Transcaucasia and across the Palearctic to Siberia and Japan in the east. In the south, it is found in Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Lebanon and Syria. It is not present in the British Isles and northern Scandinavia. \nDescription:\nThe black-veined white has a wingspan of 51 to 70 mm. Females are commonly larger than males. The upper side of both forewings and hindwings is a translucent white boldly veined with black. The underside is similar in the male but the female has brown veining. Moreover, the female loses most of her scales by rubbing her wings together, resulting almost-transparent.\nBiology:\nThe flight period of the black-veined white is between April and July. The adults are quite social and their abundance varies greatly from year to year. The eggs are laid on the food plant, usually a member of the rose family Rosaceae and often on trees and bushes.\nThe eggs are laid in groups of 30 to 100. They take about three weeks to hatch. The caterpillars tend to remain in a group with a communal larval web. This species has one generation each year. The caterpillars overwinter communally in a webbing tent with entwined leaves. Caterpillars feed close together on the leaves of the food plant at first, before dispersing in the later developmental stages to other parts of the tree. \nThe pupal stage lasts about three weeks.\n\nDistribution and habitat:\nIt occurs in open forest, grazing land, orchards. lanes, gardens, meadows and thickets throughout most of Europe. This species is extinct in the British Isles (source Wikipedia). \n\nThis Picture is made during a long weekend in the South of Belgium in June 2006.$

The black furry tenacity has a beautiful leather motif. Apart from being black, it also has a white dot motif. Hairy tenacity is dangerous if it comes into contact with the skin, because it can cause itching.

Old World Swallowtail (Papilio machaon) butterfly, caterpillar preparing for transformation of the pupa

Close-up of a moth caterpillar (Euthrix potatoria) climbing on a blade of grass against a green background. There is space for text at the top

macro shot of blue butterfly with soft green yellow background

Top view grass moth, acronicta rumicis larvae, caterpillar climbing on leaves. Macro colored photo of animal

Caterpillar crawling on white flower - animal behavior.

Close up of beautiful green stinging nettle slug caterpillar on green leaves

Forest Tent Caterpillar in its natural environment. It is very invasive and destructive.

Caterpillar of the Painted Lady Butterfly

The Marbled White is a distinctive and attractive black and white butterfly, unlikely to be mistaken for any other species.

Lepidoptera insect on wild plants, North China

$Caterpillars are the larvae of lepidopteran insects (butterflies or moths). Although they are called \$

PINE PROCESSIONARY MOTH - (THAUMETOPOEA PITYOCAMPA)

Yellow hairy caterpillar isolated on white.

A box tree caterpillar crawling on wood.

A gypsy moth caterpillar crawling on a green leaf in the garden.

Monarch butterfly caterpillar on green leaf background

4 caterpillars climbing branch - animal behavior.

Grey blue orange and white hairy caterpillar crawling along a nettle stem on a moss background

$Zerynthia polyxena, the southern festoon, is a butterfly belonging to the butterfly family Papilionidae.\nDescription:\nThe southern festoon can reach a wingspan of 46–52 mm. The females have slightly longer wings, usually lighter colored than males. The basic color of the wings is yellow, with a complicated pattern of several black bands and spots. \nOn the edges of the hindwings they have a black sinuous line with a series of blue and red warning spots to deter potential predators (aposematism). The body is dark brown and bears red patches on the sides of the abdomen. \nThis species is rather similar to, and can be confused only with, the Spanish festoon (Z. rumina). The differences are in the presence of blue on the hind wings of Z. polyxena and the relatively lower amount of red on its forewings compared with Z. rumina. The ranges of these two species overlap only in southeast France. \nThe caterpillars of Z. polyxena are up to 35 millimeters long. They are initially black, then they are yellowish with six rows of fleshy orange and black spikes all over the body. \nHabitat:\nThese rare butterflies can be found in warm, sunny and open places such as grassy herb-rich meadows, vineyards, river banks, wetlands, cultivated areas, brushy places, wasteland, rocky cliffs and karst terrains, at an elevation of from 0 to 1,700 meters above sea level but usually below 900 meters.\nDistribution:\nZ. polyxena is widespread in the middle and southern Europe (southeastern France, Italy, Slovakia and Greece) covering all the Balkans and reaching the south of Kazakhstan and the Urals. Although they are widespread they occur only locally (source Wikipedia).\n\nThis Picture is made during a Vacation in Bulgaria in May 2018.$

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