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Beautiful iparhan butterfly ; Melitaea trivia ( Syriaca )

Close up view of Vanessa Atalanta above sprouts.

Essex skipper or European skipper butterfly - Thymelicus lineola sucks with its trunk nectar from a Carthusian pink blossom - Dianthus carthusianorum

$Distribution: Inachis io is a very common resident in the Netherlands. The Dutch population is sometimes supplemented by wandering individuals. The species occurs nearly all over the Netherlands, the butterfly being found in places with nectar-rich flowers in a wide variety of habitats.\nFood Plants: The larval food plant is Stinging Nettle (Urtica dioica). The female butterfly lays her eggs on plants growing in the half shadow in damp places.\nFlying Season: Peacock Butterfly flies in one generation from mid-July until the end of August. It hibernates as an adult, and the butterflies fly from the end of March until the beginning of June.$

$The photo shows orange/yellow cosmos flowers and a butterfly called Argyreus hyperbius / Indian fritillary.\nNative to Mexico, cosmos sulphureus which is commonly called yellow cosmos is now grown all over including North America, Asia and Europe. This annual plant produces daisy-like flowers with flower colors ranging from yellow to orange to scarlet red. Orange cosmos normally blooms in summer and early autumn in Japan with butterflies circling around the flowers.$

This small butterfly is a Juniper Hairstreak. It was photographed at the H.E. Flanagan Prairie in Western Arkansas in mid-July. It is feeding on Rattlesnake Master.

A beautiful brown butterfly sits on a blooming oregano.

A black swallowtail butterfly, Papilio polyxenes, uses its long tongue to feed on the flower of a common beggar-tick plant, Bidens alba.

An extreme closeup shot of a butterfly with beautifully textured wings sitting on a plant with bubbly effects

American Lady butterfly photographed on Gayfeather at the H.E. Flanagan Prairie in Western Arkansas.

Farfugium japonicum is a clump-forming perennial that is grown in gardens as much for its attractive foliage as for its autumn flowers. It is native to moist meadows and stream banks in Japan and eastern Asia. Daisy-like, yellow flowers bloom in loose corymbs atop thick, mostly leafless stalks that rise above the foliage in late summer to fall.

A Butterfly papilio machaon on the grass in Summer

A Silver Spotted Skipper forages on a Buddlea flower in fall in the Laurentian Forest.

Closeup Pyronia butterfly feeding on flower seen from above

This Gray Hairstreak butterfly was photographed feeding on Rattlesnake Master in the H.E. Flanagan Prairie in Western Arkansas.

A Painted Lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) perched on a sprig of Delphinium

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