The Small Tortoiseshell is definitely one of our prettiest butterflies, and this one feeding on some lavender in a garden in #Maynooth is particularly vibrant.

Pieris napi - landing

EXPLORE!!!! July 7, 09

I haven't uploaded any thing to my Flickr page for months now, so I thought I should put up some photos I have taken at a recent visit to a butterfly farm.... Enjoy..

is barely enough :-) Mark Twain. HBM!!

butterfly, brookside gardens butterfly house, wheaton, maryland

Inachis io

San Diego California

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Blesle (Haute-Loire, France)

a beauty of a butterfly for my daily photo

Painted lady butterfly on valerian. Natural light

I love the coloration in the eyes.

I missed the focus, but I was just happy it let me get close enough to get the shot. Took about 5 minutes of following it around before it was comfortable enough to not fly away.

Walk at Clipperdown

Ashridge Estate, Chiltern Hills, Hertfordshire, England

"Butterflies are free to fly, and so they fly away."

butterfly on concrete bench

Polyommatus icarus

Spotted my first butterfly of the year in the garden the other day- a Comma. It first landed on a bush but by the time I got my camera out it was sitting on the garden path - not the easiest position to get close to. Natural light

Focus stacked using zerene.

Phalanta phalantha phalantha (Leopard)

Macro Mondays - September 8, 2014 - Pale

Small tortoiseshell butterfly. Highdown gardens Worthing

Zie ook mijn butterfly set: Butterfly

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Vanessa atalanta

Der einzige Admiral, den ich in diesem Sommer gesehen habe, saß nicht auf einer Blüte, sondern auf einem Plakat an einer Hauswand.