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Butterfly feeding on nectar and pollinating around

monarch butterfly collecting pollen on a flower

Clusters of purple Argentinian vervain, Verbena bonariensis, flowers with a feeding painted lady butterfly, Vanessa cardui, in close up and a background of blurred leaves.

Viceroy butterfly (a monarch mimic), summer. Smaller than a monarch, with a different vein pattern.

A butterfly pollinates an orange ball tree flower (Latin: Buddleja globosa).

Celery butterfly forages a butterfly shrub in Quebec in the fall.

A stunning black butterfly perched atop a vibrant pink flower in a sun-drenched meadow

Monarch butterfly on purple aster flower in early autumn

The Plain Tiger Butterfly resting on the flower plant during Spring season in India

Giant Swallowtail Butterfly with blue background. In Arizona in the fall. Not captive, free flying.

Many beautiful butterflies are flying on purple flowers.

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.

Monarch Butterfly in Pismo Beach Monarch Butterfly Grove on the Central Coast of California USA

Eastern tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) feeding on joe-pye weed in summer, Connecticut, with defocused background. 4:3 format.

Monarch butterfly on purple wildflower in the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge

Black swallowtail butterfly is well-known for its adaptability and wide distribution.

close up of monarch butterfly feeding on pink milkweed blossom

Close shot of a beautiful Papilio machaon, the Old World swallowtail feeding on the nectar of red clover.

Swallowtail butterfly sitting on a wild flower on a meadow

Fritillary butterfly on an orange Cosmos flower in a meadow. Very shallow depth of field. Focus flat on to the side of the butterfly with it's wings raised. Good copy space.

Monarch Butterfly On Daisy Flower In The Garden

A lovely black and white Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly nectaring on purple hylotelephium flower.

A black swallowtail butterfly snacking on Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa).

Monarch Butterfly in Pismo Beach Monarch Butterfly Grove in California USA

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

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

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