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A monarch caterpillar, hanging upside down, has just split from its skin and has transformed into a chrysalis. If you look closely, you can see that a wing pattern has already formed. So amazing!

Photograph of a Monarch butterfly pollinating milkweed flowers. Photo taken in southern Manitoba, Canada in early June.

A monarch butterfly feeds on a common milkweed bloom in a meadow located in Waukesha County, Wisconsin.

Tree covered in monarch butterflies during the annual migration, located in the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary in Valle de Bravo, Mexico.

$Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) resting on a tree branches in their winter nesting area.\n\nTaken in Santa Cruz, California, USA$

Young larvae of Harmonia axyridis Harlequin ladybug.

Photo taken at Goethe state forest in North Central Florida. Nikon D720 with Nikon 200mm macro lens and SB28DX flash

A monarch is sitting with a adult caterpillar on a milkweed plant. This is the only plant the monarch will lay eggs on and the caterpillar will eat. This shows a flowering milkweed in mid to late summer. I raised the caterpillar and the butterfly from eggs. I release the butterflies in the wild once their wings are dry and they can fly.

A beautiful monarch butterfly, drinking nectar from the bloom of a milkweed plant. Shot with a Canon 5D Mark lV.

Monarch Butterfly Chrysalis Hanging on Leaf Macro, Selective Focus with Copy Space

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

Caterpillar Monarch on milkweed plant in late Summer.

$Close-up of Monarch butterfles (Danaus plexippus) resting on a tree branch in their winter nesting area.\n\nTaken in Santa Cruz, California, USA$

Monarch Caterpillar crawling up milkweed

Colorful monarch butterfly in a public park in Santa Cruz which is the main city on the Spanish Canary Island Tenerife

Monarch butterfly in flight in a field of wildflowers

Caterpillar on bitten leaf - animal behavior.

Close up of a Single Monarch Butterfly resting on a purple butterfly bush in Forest Park, St. Louis, MO.

Thousands of Monarch Butterflies hibernate in a tree in Mexico. The Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve is a conservation area and World Heritage Site within the wintering grounds of most of the monarch butterflies that migrate from east of the Rocky Mountains to central Mexico. It is estimated that up to one billion butterflies hibernate here. The Santuario Mariposa Monarca reserve is located in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt pine-oak forests ecoregion on the border of Michoac and estado de Mexico.

Asclepias syriaca (Common Milkweed) Native North American Prairie Plant

nettle butterfly caterpillars climbing up a flower

A pretty Monarch butterlfy sips nectar out of a Milkweed plant on a summer morning

A monarch chrysalis, hanging upside down, has wriggled out of its caterpillar skin only moments ago.

Adult Monarch butterfly pollinating common pink milkweed flower.

$Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) resting on a tree branch in their winter nesting area.\n\nTaken in Santa Cruz, California, USA$

A macro shot of a Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus) Caterpillar getting set to start forming its cocoon.

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