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This image shows a close up view of a monarch butterfly feeding on purple aster flowers in a sunny garden

small pearl bordered fritillary close up

Painted Lady butterfly in a garden at Agartala, Tripura, India, Asia. Tripura is one of the states of India, and Agartala is its capital

Flowerbed with purple allium flowers and butterflies. View from above.

Old World swallowtail or Papilio machaon on the purple flower of a butterfly bush

Painted lady on butterfly bush in a Connecticut state forest, late summer. One of the most widely distributed butterflies in the world.

A Diana Fritillary butterfly on a purple buddleia flower

Great Spangled Fritillary (Speyeria cybele) feeding on a flower

Meadow brown butterfly (maniola jurtina) pollinating verbena bonariensis flowers in a UK summer garden

$Brenthis daphne, the marbled fritillary, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.\nDescription:\nBrenthis daphne has a wingspan of 30–44 millimeters. Wings are rather rounded, the basic color of the upper side of the forewings is bright orange, with an incomplete black marginal band. The underside of the hindwings have a yellowish postdiscal band and the marginal area is completely suffused with purple, with a marble effect (hence the common name). The quadrangular patch on the underside hindwing is partially shaded orange pink to outer side. The chrysalis has two dorsal rows of thorns with bright spots and a bright metallic shine.\nThis species is very similar to the lesser marbled fritillary (Brenthis ino), but the latter is slightly smaller and the coloration of said patch is completely yellow.\nBiology:\nThe butterfly flies from late May to early August depending on the location. The eggs are laid separately in July on the leaves of the host plants. The larvae feed on brambles (Rubus fruticosus), raspberry (Rubus idaeus), Rubus caesius, Rubus sachalinensis, Sanguisorba officinalis and Filipendula species, while adults usually feed on nectar from brambles, thistles and other flowers. This species is univoltine. It overwinters at the caterpillar stage in the egg shell. \nDistribution and habitat:\nThis widespread species is present in the Palearctic ecozone from the southern parts of the continental Europe (northern Spain, southern France, Germany, Italy and eastwards to Slovakia and Greece), up to Caucasus, western Siberia. It prefers warm and sunny forest edges, woodland and bushy areas where the host plants grow, at an elevation of 75–1,750 meters above sea level (source Wikipedia).\n\nThis Picture is made during a Vacation in Bulgaria in May 2018.$

Monarch butterfly on top of a blue Scabiosa flower. High quality photo

Orange collored butterfly Cynthia cardui is sucking nectar from a white flower.

Plebeius Argus Butterfly on a leave (Silver Studded Blue Butterfly)

Great spangled fritillary (Speyeria cybele) on butterfly bush (Buddleia davidii), summer, Connecticut

A monarch butterfly enjoying a spring garden

Black Swallowtail feeding on purple Milk Thistle flower, two bees hooving in the background

Butterfly - Pipevine Swallowtail Perched on Bee Balm

Side view macro close-up of a single tiger longwing butterfly (Heliconius hecale) sitting on a pink flower

This monarch butterfly was enjoying feeding on a patch of coneflowers in the last of the evening's light

Close up of a meadow brown (maniola jurtina) butterfly on heliotrope (heliotropium arborescens) flowers

Butterflys sitting on the purple Buddleia in the garden

Photograph of a red Admiral butterfly sitting on a garden flower

Closeup of a Gulf Fritillary butterfly feeding on red tubular flowers in a Florida garden

Painted Lady, Tortoiseshell & Peacock Butterflies, plus a honey bee, taking full advantage of some early September sunshine on a Buddleia Flower. Kenmare, Co. Cork (03/09/18)

Large Skipper butterfly on Oregano flower.

Closeup of colorful butterfly on wild flower in a meadow

Battus philenor, the pipevine swallowtail or blue swallowtail, is a swallowtail butterfly found in North America and Central America. This butterfly is black with iridescent-blue hindwings. Sonoran Desert near Tucson, Arizona.

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