The warm, sunny weather in the middle of the week brought out an encouraging number of butterflies to nectar on the sallow in my garden.

Bison Hill - Dunstable Downs - Bedfordshire.

Several of these beauties about on the chalk slopes but very flighty and difficult to get shots of.

An absolutely box-fresh one.

Linley Estate, South Shropshire.

On one of last year's Hydrangea heads. Its lost its 'tails' so looks like its escaped a bird strike.

Garden safari.

Hipparchia del faggio

Nymphalidae

Frühlings-Generation / Spring generation

La Pobla de Lillet, Catalunya, España

...ale jaka — nie wiem :-)

[ENG] Marbled white. Pyrenees (Spain), altitude 950 m.

[ESP] Medioluto norteña. Pirineos (España), altitud 950 m.

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Nymphalidae

Nymphalidae

Pyronia tithonus

Nymphalidae, Charaxinae: Charaxes solon sulphureus

Heute habe ich wirklich Glück gehabt und konnte diesen Tagpfauenauge – einer der schönsten Edelfalter erwischen.

Leider hat der kleine Kerle wohl schon einiges mitgemacht und abbekommen 😢

Cerro Montezuma, PNN Tatamá, Risaralda, Colombia.

Coenonympha pamphilus

網絲蛺蝶

Cyrestis thyodamas (Common Mapwing)

Nymphalidae

Pu'er, Yunnan, China

see comments for additional image (another parasitized individual with Braconid wasp cocoons)...

A rare Mangrove Buckeye Butterfly spotted in South Florida.

Pyronia tithonus (Nymphalidae)

Family: Nymphalidae. Species: Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758). (Tyngsborough, MA)

Vulcain macaronésien

Vanessa vulcania

Quebrada seca, cañón del río Cauca, Municipio de Rio Sucio, Caldas, Colombia, a 750 mts,

Nymphalidae

A fuego lento (Rosana)

La vanesa índica canaria (Vanessa vulcania) es una mariposa endémica de la Macaronesia, distribuyéndose en la isla de Madeira y las Islas Canarias. (Aparece en El Hierro, La Palma, La Gomera, Tenerife y Gran Canaria).

Heute konnte ich diesen flinken Kerl einfangen als Er sich kurz auf eine Magerite setze....

Some inverts we found last Wednesday, during a nice day in Shrewsbury. It has got colder & more autumnal since...

Pararge aegeria

Quebrada seca, Cañón del rio Cauca, Rio Sucio, Caldas, Colombia. 450 m.

Nymphalidae, Satyrinae: Penthema darlisa mimetica form darlisa

Schachbrettfalter /Melanargia galathea / marbled white

Nymphalidae, Charaxinae: Charaxes delphis delphis

Adelpha syma butterfly.

Nymphalidae

Aambyvalley rd, upper Lonavala,Mah.,India

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Wallace's Longwing

Apollon

Parnassius apollo

Hier konnte ich einen wunderschönen C-Falter einfangen der mir in meiner Sammlung noch fehlte 😊

Nymphalidae Butterfly : Pentax-K1 + smcPentax-DA*300mm f/4 EDIFSDM , AFspot

Nice to see the butterflies appearing in & around my garden. I've seen a white of some sort & my first holly blue today too. This peacock seems to have lead an adventurous life already.

Kleines Wiesenvögelchen (Kleiner Heufalter) / small heath / Coenonympha pamphilus

Nymphalidae

Quitacalzones, Manu Road, Cusco, Peru - 1000 m