A comma butterfly appeared today to feed on the camelia flowers

common blue resting on my hand, stunningly beautiful in close quarters,check out large

we went to a tag and release event over the weekend, butterflies everywhere!

In a deep, shady and fresh funnel this summer I discovered butterflies love to rest and cool down, making it extremely easy to approach them and allowing you to entirely fill a frame with their colours.

Red admiral butterfly feeding on valerian. Natural light

Le mattinate umide sono eccezzionali, l'umidità si posa su piante e insetti, come piccoli diamanti lì avvolge, dando vita a riflessi e giochi di luce unici.

Painted lady butterfly series. Feeding on valerian. Natural light

Speckled wood butterfly. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene. See www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/15027105168/ for a 3-D version

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Anthene emolus goberus (Ciliate Blue)

Taken at the Butterfly Conservatory in Niagara Falls Canada

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Small tortoiseshell butterfly closeup

Cross-eye stereogram

Cabbage butterfly

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Tintenfleck-Weißling (Leptidea sinapis)

KONICA MINOLTA DIGITAL CAMERA

VC37

Lamphun Thailand

Gatekeeper butterfly on potentilla

The holly blue butterfly in the previous shots had been remarkably calm about me taking photos, so when I'd finished, I stuck a finger under it's nose and much to my surprise it walked on and stayed there quite a while. It only flew off when I tried walking up the garden to show the wife.

One of last years hibernators I think, a slightly worn Red Admiral

Taken during a photoholiday orginized by Marco de Paauw www.wildlifeimages.nl

Holly blue butterfly. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene

Photostacking same old butterfly....

Meadow brown butterfly. taken at Parham house gardens Sussex

Peacock butterfly. This is the 4th of these we've found in our dining room since the beginning of August.

In Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam. Testing my new Canon 100mm f/2.8 macro lens.

Really strange eyes.

Atala butterfly

Not quite as colorful as these

Speckled wood butterfly

The plant is under attack from aphid above and the newly emerged larva below.

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