Stephen Dalton / Brimstone butterfly (Gonepteryx rhamni) on Bluebell flower, UK
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Stephen Dalton / Painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) on Buddleia flowers, UK
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Andy Sands / Brimstone butterfly (Goneopteryx rhamni) male on Oxlip flower in spring, UK, Captive, March
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Colin Varndell / Orange Tip Butterflies (Anthocharis cardamines) at rest on a background of purple flowers. Dorset, UK, April.
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Ross Hoddinott / 2020VISION / Orange Tip butterfly {Anthocharis cardamines} female resting on Cuckooflower {Cardamine pratensis}, north Devon, UK. April
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Ross Hoddinott / RF- Orange Tip Butterfly (Anthocharis cardamines) female resting on Cuckooflower (Cardamine pratensis). North Devon, UK. April. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)
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Konrad Wothe / Tropical Butterfly (Adepha) on a leaf with wings spread. Danum Valley, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia.
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Konrad Wothe / Cairns birdwing butterfly (Ornithoptera priamus) male on fern leaf and Blue Mountain Swallowtail butterfly in flight, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia, October
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LYNN M. STONE / Common buckeye butterfly (Junonia coenia) North Guilford, Connecticut, USA, August
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MYN / Paul Harcourt Davies / Two-tailed pasha butterfly (Charaxes jasius) butterfly recently emerged from chrysalis, emergence sequence 8/15, Umbria, Italy, August . meetyourneighbours.net project
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MYN / Paul Harcourt Davies / Caterpillar larva of Southern festoon butterfly (Zerynthia polyxena cassandra) on foodplant (Aristolochia rotundifolia) Italy, May. meetyourneighbours.net project
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Ross Hoddinott / 2020VISION / Large blue butterfly (Maculinea arion) on a Common Centaury (Centaurium erythraea) flower, Collard Hill, Somerset, England, UK, June 2011. Did you know? The large blue's life cycle is dependent on the...