I got this pic on a cool fall day.

Schmetterlinge ↵

A Green-Veined White Butterfly (pieris napi) photographed in a garden in Carmarthenshire, Wales.

Hampshire uk 15/5/23

Inachis io

珀酣弄蝶

Halpe paupera(Beggar's Ace)

Lepidoptera Royalty

I have seen a few Monarchs, but they never land long enough to photograph, so I was pleased to eventually catch this one in my yard.

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Fazenda Grotão - DF, Brazil.

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Lepidoptera

Superfamily: Papilionoidea

Family: Nymphalidae

Subfamily: Limenitidinae

Tribe: Limenitidini

Genus: Adelpha Hübner, 1819

Species: A. cytherea (Linnaeus, 1758)

Subspecies: A. c. aea (C. & R. Felder, [1867])

Trinomial name: Adelpha cytherea aea

Papilio machaon

Finally got my Small Copper shot, boy did that take some chasing!! I have only seen 6 this year and only singular ones, on 6 different sites.

Hampshire Uk

Another image from yesterdays visit to Priddy.

I did check out my usual spot for find these butterflies but couldn't see anything so presumed they had not emerged yet, an hour later at a completely different spot, came across this immaculate butterfly, so wasn't too early after all.

Best viewed very large.

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Hampshire uk

Order : Lepidoptera

Superfamily : Papilionoidea

Family : Nynphalidae

Sub-Family : Nymphalinae

Genus : Polygonia

Species : Polygonia c-album

HSS

Jósvafő

Hauhechelbläuling (Polyommatus icarus)

Giant Swallowtail.

Crosswinds March, Wayne County, Michigan.

Male common blue.

Lepidoptera

Polyommatus coridon, Stroud.

All my macro images are made in one shot. There are not fake backgrounds or any image manipulations on Photoshop, apart from some normal adjustments and cropping. All the work is done in the field.

Hampshire UK

Seen at Aston Rowant Nature Reserve on the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire.

Brown Argus butterfly (Aricia agestis)

This one is a male sitting on a grass stem.

小嬈灰蝶

Arhopala paramuta (Hooked Oak Blue)

Dozens of these around the brambles, lots of fighting going on.

Hyde Lea Stafford UK 15th June 2020

This moth/butterfly is lucky to be alive. Martin felt something crawling up his leg & thankfully he resisted the urge to swat it away. This beautiful creature had just emerged from it's chrysalis because it's wings were tiny, all shrivelled up still. I gently caught it & moved it onto a Red Valarian plant & over a period of an hour or so its wings gradually expanded.

I got distracted so don't know if it survived to fly away but I do hope so. Not sure on ID, possibly a Skipper butterfly or maybe an Orange Underwing moth? Hopefully someone with more knowledge can shed some light on this for me.

EDIT : ID provided by Bárbol as Noctua pronuba "Large Yellow Underwing" moth.

Happy Wing Wednesday & Happy Bokeh Wednesday. Photo 84/100 for the 100 Flowers 2020 group.

Papilio machaon

A Small Copper demonstrating the 'cup' in Buttercup.

Picture of Lepidoptera butterfly (unknown species). Taken at Goheonsa Temple in Ulsan, South Korea.

Complex process underway. Early adults lay eggs which hatch into these larvae (caterpillars) which then pupate into a chrysalis where they transform into a butterfly or moth. Along the way lots of preditors are prepared to take advantage of them. It's a wonder to me that they every succeed. But happily they do!

Lepidoptera

A backlit Meadow Brown at sunrise

Papilio machaon

Pentax-K3 + Leica MC SuperColorPlan 90mmf/2.5 , Handheld

疑波灰蝶

Prosotas dubiosa (Purple Line Blue)

Anverso hembra con difusión azul.

Red Admiral butterfly… Yes, yet another Red Admiral. They just keep coming !