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A closeup of a brown and white butterfly sitting on a yellow flowewith a blurred background

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

This beautiful and elegant butterfly is a change from a pretty scary caterpillar, it takes a few days to process a caterpillar that was initially so frightening into a beautiful butterfly, that is the power of God that is extraordinary.

Polites themistocles butterfly collecting pollen on the yellow flower of Sphagneticola trilobata in the garden

A skipper visits a zinnia blossom while collecting nectar in Maryland.

Skipper Butterfly feeding on the nectar of a Dandylion flower

Large Skipper butterfly on Oregano flower.

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White butterfly on a lush flower in a public park on the Portuguese Azorean Island San Miguel in the center of the North Atlantic Ocean

Little butterfly on flower in the garden, Thailand

Marigold, native to Mexico and South America, is herbaceous plant that belongs to the family Asteraceae. Marigold comes in different colors; yellow or orange being the most common. Majority of marigold species bloom during summer and autumn. Most of the marigold have strong, pungent odor and have great value in cosmetic treatment.

Butterfly in garden with blurred background during summer on zinnia flower closeup.

A skipper standing on a black-eyed Susan curls its proboscis.

A butterfly gracefully sips nectar from a white flower in a sunlit garden, captured with vibrant green leaves in the background.

Gerbera flowers with exotic butterflies nice shot

Skippers are a family, the Hesperiidae, of the Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies). Being diurnal, they are generally called butterflies. They were previously placed in a separate superfamily, Hesperioidea; however, the most recent taxonomy places the family in the superfamily Papilionoidea. They are named for their quick, darting flight habits. Most have their antenna tips modified into narrow, hook-like projections. More than 3500 species of skippers are recognized, and they occur worldwide, but with the greatest diversity in the Neotropical regions of Central and South America

A macro image grass skipper butterfly (Hesperiinae).

Colias hyale, pale clouded yellow, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae, that is, the yellows and whites.Tagetes is a genus of annual or perennial, mostly herbaceous plants in the sunflower family.

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