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Nymphalis antiopa, known as the mourning cloak in North America and the Camberwell beauty in Britain, is a large butterfly native to Eurasia and North America. The immature form of this species is sometimes known as the spiny elm caterpillar.
Aglais milberti, the fire-rim tortoiseshell or Milbert's tortoiseshell, is considered the only species of the proposed Aglais genus that occurs in North America. Great Basin National Park, Nevada.
Brazilian butterfly
Close-up of a beautiful butterfly. Viewed at Butterfly Gardens located in Victoria, British Columbia.
Side view of a Morning Cloak Butterfly on plant.
White peacock butterfly,
A close-up of a Nymphalis antiopa butterfly with open wings
Drinking up nectar from milkweed flowers, a wild, mourning cloak and skipper feed together in Waterton Canyon near the South Platte River in Littleton, Colorado.
Morning Cloak Butterfly landed on a low growing hosta plant beside a rock garden waterfalls
The Red Admiral is a common and regular migrant in the Netherlands. The species is regularly seen in gardens during mid-late summer. They are often found feeding on garden Buddleias or during late summer/early autumn seen feeding often in large numbers on flowering Ivy and rotting fruit in gardens and orchards.\n\nHabitat: Anywhere in the Netherlands where abundant nectar sources are available and Common Nettle the larval food plant can be found.\n\nDistribution: This familiar butterfly can be found anywhere in the Netherlands in almost all habitat types. It is a strong flyer and is known to migrate from continental Europe to the North every year.\n\nThis is a common Migration Butterfly in the Netherlands.
A Mourning Cloak Butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa) on a leaf
A vibrant Mormon fritillary butterfly rests atop yellow flowers, feeding on nectar, with its orange wings contrasting beautifully against the greens and yellows of the Colorado Rocky Mountain landscape.
Mourning Cloak on the ground.
Common Blue Butterfly / Latin species name: Polyommatus icarus
Camberwell beauty butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa) warming in early spring sun after hibernation as imago adult insect. La Brenne, France.
Butterfly on green leaf.
I took this photo at San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary, Irvine, California on July 23rd, 2017.
Common brown butterfly feeding on a wild flower
05 september 2023, Illange, Thionville Portes de France, Moselle, Lorraine, Grand Est, France. It's summer. At the entrance to the forest, a Comma Butterfly has landed in the foliage of a tree. The butterfly is in profile, its wings are closed. We can therefore see the brownish underside of its wings, much less visible than the orange upper part. A white comma contrasts in the middle of the brown.
A camberwell beauty butterfly in spring in the Laurentian forest.
Beautiful Blue Admiral (Ruritateha, ) butterfly, voraciously sucking Sawtooth Oak sap in a line (Wildlife closeup macro photograph)
Comma butterfly on budding goose-berry.
Closeup of red-spotted purple butterfly (Limenitis arthemis astyanax) with red dots on forewings and iridescent blue markings on hindwings. This species is found in eastern parts of the United States.
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.
Close up of a peacock butterfly (aglais io) on a butterfly bush (buddleja davidii) shrub
Brown Argus butterfly / Latin species name: Plebeius agestis
Mourning Cloak on Green Background
A dusky metalmark butterfly pauses on a leaf in the forest. of Guatemala highland.
A migratory butterfly with deep purple yellow-bordered wings
Island of Corfu, Greece. Corfu, or Korkyra, lies to the west of the Greek and Albanian mainland and separates the Adriatic from the Ionian Seas. Largely formed from Limestone, the island measuring some thirty miles by 18 miles is now a tourist destination, known for its beaches, climate and olives. Medieval castles and ancient ruins chart the military history of the island back to ancient Greek mythology.
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