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Vintage Butterfly illustration by  William Forsell Kirby. Plate of the book \
Beautiful Silver-washed fritillary [Argynnis paphia] butterfly on a flower in summer
butterfly on the flower in spring
Polyommatus icarus is a common resident in the Netherlands.\nHabitat: The species occurs in a variety of flower-rich places, irrespective of nutrient level, pH or humidity. habitats include waste ground, grasslands and roadside verges.\nFood plants: Several species of Fabaceae serve as larval food plant.\nFlight Season: Common Blue flies in two, sometimes three generations from mid-May until the end of August, and hibernates as a half-grown caterpillar.\nDistribution: A common species in a great part of Europe, except the north of Scandinavia.\n\nThis Picture is made during a long weekend in the Eifel (Germany) in June 2019.
Common blue butterfly, male [Polyommatus icarus]
Red spotted admiral butterfly sitting on spring thistle
Silver-spotted Skipper (Epargyreus clarus)  feeding on Wild Bergamot on a mid-summer afternoon at Clarence Schock Memorial Park in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.
A mail Fender's Blue Butterfly  with green background. Wings are closed. This subspecies is only known to be in the Willamette Valley of Oregon.
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A Fire-rim Tortoiseshell butterfly, gathers pollen from a summer lilac flowers in autumn.
Transposition to pencil or charcoal drawing of a gonglondrine tail butterfly to color or use as a coloring model
Great spangled fritillary on joe-pye weed in summer, top or dorsal view, showing the pattern on the back of the wings. The Latin word fritillus means chessboard or dice box. Fritillary is also a checkered flower.
Red Admiral butterfly, Vanessa atalanta, feeding nectar on a white flower in a meadow.
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Anna's Blue (Plebejus anna) butterfly sitting on a Seaside Buckwheat (Eriogonum latifolium) wildflower, Marin Headlands, San Francisco bay area, California
Ochlodes sylvanus Large Skipper Butterfly Insect. Digitally Enhanced Photograph.
tortoiseshell butterfly on a flower
Two six spot burnet moths and single bumble bee on pink burdock flower in grass meadow
butterfly on the flower in spring
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.
Papilio machaon on green plant in the wild
White admiral (Red-spotted Purple, Limenitis camilla, female) on umbrella Hogweed. Butterfly is named after the Amazon Camilla
Male Monarch Butterfly
Butterfly of small size and blue color (Azuré des nerpruns)
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.
Small Skipper ( Thymelicus sylvestris ) perched on a thistle
The Holly BlueButterfly is easily identified in early spring, as it emerges well before other blue butterflies. It tends to fly high around bushes and trees
Small heath (Coenonympha pamphilus) butterfly on white daisy flower, green meadow background
A common blue butterfly collects nectar from a flower in autumn in a garden.
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