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Carterocephalus palaemon - butterfly on the flower, green background

$Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- di- \$

Large Skipper butterfly on Oregano flower.

Colorful closeup of he pink or large elephant hawk moth , Deilephila elpenor with open wings, in the garden

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

Adult Damselfly Insect of the Suborder Zygoptera

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

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.

A small tiny butterfly Green lacewings, Chrysopidae with thin transparent mesh wings. Side view. Macro photography of insects, copy space, selective focus.

Large skipper butterfly on grass in a nature reserve. Stukeley Meadows Nature Reserve Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.

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

A Small Copper with open wings nectaring on flower head

A Contiguous Swift skipper butterfly perches on a blade of grass.

Horsefly or gadfly on white background, extreme close-up

Butterfly Marsh Fritillary. Euphydryas aurinia.

Parnara guttata Bremeret Grey, Rice skipper butterfly, A butterfly is on the flower

A macro shot of a tsetse fly on the ground

Cynipidae Gall Wasp Insect. Digitally Enhanced Photograph.

tiny butterfly on white flower, Gerhard’s Black Hairstreak, Satyrium abdominalis

Large walnut aphid (Panaphis juglandis) on the upper side of leaf of walnut (Juglans regia) nymphs and adults.

An Hobomok Skipper butterfly pauses on a leaf in the Canadian boreal forest.

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