Kim Taylor / Large white / Cabbage white butterfly {Pieris brassicae} female flies from broccoli flower UK.

MYN / Joao P. Burini / Green lepidopteran chrysalis, Tapirai, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Atlantic forest. Meetyourneighbours.net project.

Nick Upton / Parasite fly / Tachinid fly (Gymnocheta viridis), a parasite of lepidopteran caterpillars, sunning on an ivy leaf on a woodland edge, Wiltshire, UK, April.

Clay Bolt / Winter Ants (Prenolepis imparis) feeding on secretions from lepidopteran egg on oak. Southern Appalachians, South Carolina, USA, April.

Niall Benvie / Moth (possibly white fanfoot) against white background. France, August.

Niall Benvie / Moth (Lepidoptera, possibly Colotois sp.), against white background. France, Europe.

Piotr Naskrecki / Lepidopteran caterpillar in rainforest, Suriname

Nick Upton / Ichneumon wasp (Ichneumon emancipatus) a parasitoid of Lepidopteran caterpillars, nectar feeding on Common hogweed / Cow parsnip flowers, Wiltshire, UK, June.

Wild Wonders of Europe / Müller / Moth and Lichen on tree trunk, Pollino National Park, Basilicata, Italy, November 2008

Pete Oxford / Mass of communal Lepidopteran caterpillars, Amazonia rainforest, Ecuador, South-America