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Large Skipper butterfly on Oregano flower.

Close up of the brown argus butterfly, Aricia agestis, pollinating in a flowers field. Top view, open wings

Potanthus omaha, commonly known as the lesser dart, is a species of skipper butterflies.

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Multicoloured butterfly perched on a reed with green leaves. Colourful macro nature photography. Copy Space.

Great spangled fritillary on joe-pye weed in summer, top or dorsal view, showing the pattern on the back of the wings. The Latin word fritillus means chessboard or dice box. Fritillary is also a checkered flower.

Southern White Admiral butterflies (Limenitis reducta) viewed on top

A Fire-rim Tortoiseshell butterfly, gathers pollen from a summer lilac flowers in autumn.

A Mourning Cloak butterfly rests on rocks.

Ochlodes sylvanus Large Skipper Butterfly Insect. Digitally Enhanced Photograph.

A Bordered Patch butterfly perched on a flower head and covered in dew at the National Butterfly Center.

$Appearance:\nIt has a rusty orange colour to the wings, upper body and the tips of the antennae. The body is silvery white below and it has a wingspan of 25–30 mm. This butterfly is very similar in appearance to the Essex skipper (Thymelicus lineola). In the small skipper, the undersides of the tips of the antennae are yellow orange, whereas they are black in the Essex skipper. The black area on the lower edge of the upper wings also differs. Like the other orange grass skippers the male has a distinctive black stripe made up of scent scales.\n\nLife cycle and food plants:\nEggs are laid loosely inside grass sheaths of the caterpillars food plants from July to August. The newly hatched caterpillars eat their own eggshell before entering hibernation individually in a protective cocoon of a grass sheath sealed with silk. In the spring the caterpillar begins feeding. The favoured food plant is Yorkshire fog (Holcus lanatus), although other recorded food plants include timothy (Phleum pratense), creeping soft grass (Holcus mollis), false brome (Brachypodium sylvaticum), meadow foxtail (Alopecurus pratensis) and cock's foot (Dactylis glomerata). The caterpillars pupate near the base of the food plant in June with the first adults on the wing at the end of June, a week or two before the first Essex skippers. They are strongly attracted to purple flowers such as thistles and knapweeds.\n\nDistribution:\nThis butterfly's range includes much of Europe (east to the Urals, including Ireland, Britain and Scandinavia, and includes north Africa and the Middle East. It is typically occurring where grass has grown tall.\n\nThis Picture is made during a Long Weekend in the South of Belgium in June 2019.$

The Queen of Spain fritillary (Issoria lathonia) is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.

Closeup of a large skipper Ochlodes sylvanus butterfly on a purple thistle flowers drinking nectar.

Butterfly Marsh Fritillary. Euphydryas aurinia.

Lepidoptera insects in the wild, North China

A Purple Emperor Butterfly feeding on salts on a woodland track

Red butterfly on flower, Glanville Fritillary, Melitaea cinxia

Close up of male fiery skipper butterfly, Hylephila phyleus, feeding on stevia, Stevia rebaudiana. Sunnyvale, California, USA.

Brown Argus butterfly on a blade of grass in a nature reserve. Stukeley Meadows Nature Reserve Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.

Silver-spotted skipper (Epargyreus clarus -- a butterfly) on purple vervain, with copy space. In a Connecticut garden, summer.

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