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$Vanessa cardui - Painted lady butterfly - Distelfalter\nBeautiful butterfly on a thistle flower. Europe.$

Flowering milk thistle and butterfly hives on a flower

The ringlet butterfly - Aphantopus hyperantus resting on Cirsium arvense the creeping thistle or field thistle

The purple thistle flower photographed in Australia

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.

Black Swallowtail Butterfly Feeding on a Flower

Red spotted admiral butterfly sitting on spring thistle

A closeup shot of a beautiful Checkered butterfly, Melanargia galathea on a thistle flower

Meadow Brown butterfly- Maniola jurtina sucks nectar with its proboscis from the blossom of the Cirsium arvense the creeping thistle or field thistle

Macro shot of a Melanargia galathea butterfly on a Centaurea scabiosa flower in a wildflower meadow in summer

An image of a Comma Butterfly nectaring on a thistle head

Cranesbill (geranium) on a windy day in an English country garden. A slow shutter speed shows the movement in the wind.

$Vanessa cardui is a very common migrant that arrives from Africa every summer. Numbers fluctuate annually, depending on the reproduction in Africa.\nThe species is most likely to be seen in open areas were the vegetation has a mosaic structure, such as waste land, fallow ground and pasture land.\nit uses various species of Carduus, Arctium and Cirsium both as larval food plant and as a source of nectar.\n\nThis is a common Migration Butterfly in the Netherlands.$

Three beautiful butterflies supplies themselves with the vital nectar on two pink flowering thistles.

Large White butterfly on chive flowers, Pieris brassicae

Balck Swallowtail, Latin: Papillo poluxenes, is feeding on purple flower of Milk Thistle plant

Hummingbird hawk moth feeding on flower, Macroglossum stellatarum, Iglesias, South Sardinia, Italy. Mediterranean.

Spicebush swallowtail butterfly on the very tip of blooming field thistle. Medium close-up with bokeh background. Taken at a farm in Connecticut, midsummer.

beautiful summer butterfly sitting on a blooming purple thistle flower in the late afternoon sun

An image of a Red Admiral feeding on a thistle head

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