This female must be within the first few days after emergence as the light coloured markings are still a creamy yellow and not yet turned to the yellow and green colours of the fully mature adult.

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Marbled White have been thriving this year again and seem to settle long enough to let us take photos when these prickly thistles are in flower.

Haehnle Bird Sanctuary - Grass Lake, Michigan

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Butterfly fluttering above a flower

This set of 3 images hopefully shows the difference between the queen, viceroy and monarch butterflies.

I hope you have a pleasant day, happy snapping.

The male is much duller being a dusky soft brown or sooty grey in colour with very few black spots. Females are active by day but the Male is nocturnal.

Three Zebra Longwing butterflies cling to an orchid root. They usually find these roots a great place to spend the night. They remain here until the morning temperature warms a little and off they go to start their day among the flowers in my garden and elsewhere.

Have a wonderful day and happy snapping.

A male Long Hoverfly...Sphaerophoria scripta. shows off the iridescence on its wings

early wet morning

Pismo Beach State Park

Went to shoot a picture of a very small flower and discovered an even smaller fly.

dragon

flies mid air mating with a passer by in shot

Taken in my garden. We've enjoyed a heck of a lot of dragonflies this summer plus an even larger amount of damselflies. This particular spot was very popular with the same dragonfly

A cluster fly pausing for...whatever they pause for....

Wings covered in pollen

A Monarch feeds from the same thistle as another bug.