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Beautiful Apollo (Parnassius apollo) resting on a Echium vulgare, known as viper's bugloss.
Common Commander butterfly feeding on Mikania micrantha Kunth (Mile-a-minute Weed). Butterfly feeding on weeds.
Lepidoptera insects in the wild, North China
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.\nAdults can be seen looking for nectar in gardens, parks and on roadside verges. \nThe caterpillars feed on the smaller plants of Urtica dioica in very sunny, open spots.\nThe species flies in two generations from the beginning of March until the end of October. The adult butterfly hibernates in cool, dark places, such as barns, attics, or hollow trees.\n\nThe Picture is made along a small Brook in the Eifel (Germany) in halfway August 2021.
A butterfly perched atop a colorful bouquet of flowers in a grassy meadow.
Summer day: single hoverfly on a blooming white queen annes lace
butterfly on the flower in spring
Ochlodes sylvanus Large Skipper Butterfly Insect. Digitally Enhanced Photograph.
Painted lady butterfly, vanessa cardui on flower green background
Close shot of an Apollo or mountain Apollo (Parnassius apollo) butterfly resting on a field scabious.
The scarlet tiger moth (Callimorpha dominula, formerly Panaxia dominula) is a colorful moth belonging to the tiger moth subfamily, Arctiinae. , an intresting photo
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.
Closeup of a six-spot burnet butterfly Zygaena filipendulae, pollinating on purple Echium vulgare blueweed flowers during daytime.
Tortoiseshell butterfly on chive flowers,
Heath fritillary butterfly on a plant in nature
Closeup of Oedemera nobilis
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.
Parnassius Apollo on the flower
Lepidoptera insect on wild plants, North China
Red-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius) feeding on nectar from white clover, England, United Kingdom
A Burnet moth on the North Cornwall coast
Natural detailed closeup on a colorful European minth moth, P ogainst a green background in the garden
macro shot of blue butterfly with soft green yellow background
green background and red butterfly, Pearl-bordered Fritillar, Boloria euphrosyne
Brenthis daphne, the marbled fritillary, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.\nDescription:\nBrenthis daphne has a wingspan of 30–44 millimeters. Wings are rather rounded, the basic color of the upper side of the forewings is bright orange, with an incomplete black marginal band. The underside of the hindwings have a yellowish postdiscal band and the marginal area is completely suffused with purple, with a marble effect (hence the common name). The quadrangular patch on the underside hindwing is partially shaded orange pink to outer side. The chrysalis has two dorsal rows of thorns with bright spots and a bright metallic shine.\nThis species is very similar to the lesser marbled fritillary (Brenthis ino), but the latter is slightly smaller and the coloration of said patch is completely yellow.\nBiology:\nThe butterfly flies from late May to early August depending on the location. The eggs are laid separately in July on the leaves of the host plants. The larvae feed on brambles (Rubus fruticosus), raspberry (Rubus idaeus), Rubus caesius, Rubus sachalinensis, Sanguisorba officinalis and Filipendula species, while adults usually feed on nectar from brambles, thistles and other flowers. This species is univoltine. It overwinters at the caterpillar stage in the egg shell. \nDistribution and habitat:\nThis widespread species is present in the Palearctic ecozone from the southern parts of the continental Europe (northern Spain, southern France, Germany, Italy and eastwards to Slovakia and Greece), up to Caucasus, western Siberia. It prefers warm and sunny forest edges, woodland and bushy areas where the host plants grow, at an elevation of 75–1,750 meters above sea level (source Wikipedia).\n\nThis Picture is made during a Vacation in Bulgaria in May 2018.
Butterfly on a goose flower meadow
Cornflower close up. Compyloneuro virgula beetle in the foreground.
Beautiful and detailed close up of a colorful small tortoiseshell butterfly, Aglais urticae, from above, with its wings spread against a green background
Summer day Single hover fly on top of a blooming queen anne`s lace flower head.
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