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First speckled wood butterfly of the year arrived in the garden today so I thought I'd start getting it used to the camera. These butterflies are territorial and tend to hang around the same area for weeks.

_MG_0839 by Fleeting Times by YJ

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9.3.14 by lostinavision

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Red Admiral by Schnaepfli

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Red Admiral on Pink Flower

Papillon by Dominik Fusina

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Location : Aubrac (France)

Technical informations

NIKON D300

NIKON 60mm/2.8 MACRO

MODE : M

Speed : 1/400e

Focal : 60 mm

Aperture : f/8

ISO 200

Filter : --

Flashes : NIKON CLS system with SB-800 and 2 SB-R200 (right and left) - TTL mode

Full resolution (4288 pix) not deliverable from Flickr

buterfly 5:1 crop by Eric VanTrump

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Cropped this one a bit for comp, still larger then a frame from a 1.6 crop camera. Oh, no flash :D

Souped-up fly by Jorge Franganillo

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Mariposa reina (Papilio machaon) en un sendero al paso por la Serra de Fondrats, a 1.100 metros de altitud, entre Aiguafreda y Tagamanent.

Tree Nymph Butterfly by Russ

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tree nymph butterfly

swarming butterflies - one by goatsfoot

Butterfly by [ isnap's Photography ]

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Butterfly 8176 by Bill Coulson

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Taken at Reiman Gardens, Iowa State University. Ames, Iowa

Butterfly on euphorbia milii by Ta Nithin

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A small butterfly resting on euphorbia milii..

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The comma by Brian Valentine

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The comma on a comma butterfly wing. The pic is cropped and the butterfly is still flying around :)

Think it's going to get me :) by Brian Valentine

Painted lady (I think) on house wall. Taken with 200mm with 35mm of ext tubes in natural light

petalouda by ilias

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taken with my cellphone

Speckled wood butterfly closeup by Brian Valentine

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Uncropped, focus stacked from 2 pics. Think this one got jealous of the Holly blue and let me do some closeups. See www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/152478552/ for a crop from this shot.

see www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/152481637/ for a 3-D version

Macro butterfly eating by Countryshooter

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Vlinder by Tammo Jan Dijkema

Vlinder op de muur, vloog weg net nadat de sluiter dicht was

Butterfly by Tonino

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Libellula 1:1 by Sg@mbex

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sentosa-butterfly2 by Mark Ross

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A butterfly taking off at the excellent Butterfly and Insect Centre on the island of Sentosa off Singapore.

Comma butterfly by Laurie Knight

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not focus stacked

macaone by Danilo Rossi

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Tiny butterfly by exaframe

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Sachem Atalopedes campestris by vahe2077

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Attributes of Atalopedes campestris

Family: Skippers (Hesperiidae)

Subfamily: Grass Skippers (Hesperiinae)

Identification: Upperside of male is yellow-orange with a wide brown border and a large squarish black stigma. Female upperside varies from yellow-brown to very dark brown, but always has a square transparent white spot at the end of the forewing cell. Underside of female hindwing is brown with nearly square cream or white spots.

Life history: Males perch on or near the ground during most of the day to wait for receptive females. Females lay single eggs on dry grass blades in the afternoon. Caterpillars feed on leaves and live at the base of grasses in shelters of rolled or tied leaves.

Flight: Three broods from May-November in the north; four to five broods from March-December in the Deep South.

Wing span: 1 1/4 - 1 5/8 inches (3.2 - 4.2 cm).

Caterpillar hosts: Grasses including Bermuda grass (Cynodon dactylon), crabgrass (Digitaria), St. Augustine grass (Stenotaphrum secundatum), and goosegrass (Eleusine).

Adult food: Nectar from many flowers including swamp and common milkweeds, buttonbush, dogbane, peppermint, red clover, tickseed sunflower, thistles, New York ironweed, marigold, and asters.

Habitat: Disturbed, open areas such as roadsides, landfills, pastures, meadows, fencerows, yards, parks, and lawns.

Range: Southern United States from Virginia west to California; south through Mexico and Central America to Brazil. Strays and colonizes north to central North Dakota, southern Michigan, Manitoba, and northern Pennsylvania.

Conservation: Not usually required.

Source: www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species?l=2103

Skipper... by ~ Sailor ~

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I think I am having a severe case of Spring Fever. Is anyone else out there afflicted?

Papillon by Eric Bouchet

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DSC_2857_DxO by vince_cvvo

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Serre aux papillons

Papillon Idea leuconoe by Astrid Deschênes

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