A small yellow butterfly with dark yellow-orange on the forewing. The butterfly is on yellow flowers
A dainty sulphur (Nathalis iole) from Riverside County in California, USA. These tiny butterflies use asters as host plants. They fly very low to the ground.
#butterflies #lepidoptera #californiabutterflies
A large bright green caterpillar with light yellowish green stripes resting on someone's hand. The caterpillar has a blue horn on its read end.
From a few years ago, a lime hawk moth caterpillar,Mimas tiliae.
I've only ever seen an adult moth once in my whole life.
#insect #bug #entomology #lepidoptera #moth #caterpillar
Realistic painting of a black/blue/white butterfly in a gold frame sitting on a distressed white tabletop. There are hints of wood tone showing throughout the white surface, which you can also see behind the butterfly. This helps to indicate that the insect has been painted on a clear glass surface, and looks like it is floating in the middle of the frame.
Closeup cropped view of realistic looking pipevine swallowtail painted on a clear glass surface (with reflection of light from window/hands holding phone) inside a frame, sitting on a distressed white tabletop
Pipevine swallowtail painting, available on my website: www.nataliejunewernimoon.com 🖤
#painting #butterfly #entomology #bugsky #insects #sciart #natureart #nature #wildlife #lepidoptera #butterflies #moths #paintings #art
A photo showing a green moth resting on someone's finger. The moth has different coloured green patches on its body and black and white lines. It looks like it is mimicking the appearance of lichen.
This photo is from several years ago but look at this pretty moth I once found.
Merveille du Jou, Dichonia aprilina, I believe.
I've only seen this species once and never again :(
#bug #insect #entomology #lepidoptera #moths
Watched this Variegated Fritillary flutter around while out walking. #variegatedfritillary #northernarizona #butterfly #lepidoptera
Ptilodontella alberti in nature.
#NewSpecies
New moth from #georgia just fluttered in:
Ptilodontella alberti
Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/5C3E87B4-...
Publication: doi.org/10.11646/zoo...
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#taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #animals #fauna #insects #lepidoptera #butterfly #moths
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A photo of a moth on a while flower that is almost in bloom, still with petals wrapped around itself. The moth has a black body, with wings that are covered in fur that is black with white splotches. There are black legs with white, there are two antenne with soft hairs, but the moth is facing away so the face is not visible.
The same photo but pulled back, there are three tiny flowers open with ten to fifteen white pods ready to open into flowers. The moth is in the center, even smaller than before. Almost disappearing into the flowers.
Same photo but pulled back even more. There are a couple branches of a tree, with green leaves and there are five or six clumps of flowers. The same flowers as before, but showing how small the moth really is. The moth is almost invisible sitting on the flower. With the world surrounding it. A tiny tiny tiny thing in a huge world.
Tiny tiny tiny tiny
soft beautiful fragile spring alive.
Such a small thing in a huge world.
#moth #insect #lepidoptera #bloomscrolling #nature #photography
Top view of a moth with wings that are generally an emerald green and which have a pattern of brown and white markings around the wing border
Eucyclodes buprestaria - Bordered Emerald
An Australian Emerald moth found across the southern half of Australia.
The caterpillars of this species are known to feed on the delightfully named Slender Snotty-Gobble (Cassytha glabella)
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
A close up photo of a very teeny spider. It’s got a deep brown head and legs and a black abdomen. It is sitting on its web, which was on the ground, attached to some leaves. Agelena labyrinthica - labyrinth spider
A photograph of a white butterfly on cuckoo flower. The spider is mostly white, with some grey tips on the wings and green and yellow mottling on the underwings. This is a female Orange tip butterfly. She is nectaring on a cuckoo flower. This is a dainty pinky flower and the orange tip caterpillar’s food plant. Anthocharis cardamines (orange tip) Cardamine pratensis (cuckoo flower)
A photograph of a comma butterfly on some cow parsley. This is a vibrant orange butterfly with some darker bordering and dots on its wings. It is resting on a cow parsley leaf, surrounded by more cow parsley, dandelions and lesser celandine. Polygonia c album
And a few more: an immature labyrinth spider, a female Orange tip butterfly and a comma
London, 6 April
Info etc in alt
#Invertebrates #MacroPhotography #Butterflies #Diptera #Arachids #Spiders #Hoverflies #Lepidoptera
A small light blue butterfly is sipping nectar from a lavender flower. It has a semi-circle of five black dots on its forewing, and a number of smaller black dots on the hindwing.
Looks right for a Black-eyed Blue to me. Here's one from Spain from 2019, the only time I've ever seen one! Did you see the fabulously coloured upper wings?
#inverts #lepidoptera
Top view of a moth with satin white wings that have thick reddish orange lines down and across them
The change of the season was marked this morning by the arrival of the first Angled Satin Moth (Thalaina angulosa) of the year.
We see these stunning moths in the Perth Hills between April and June.
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Just over a year on from the bushfire that burnt through 5,300ha of bushland north of Perth, regeneration of the area is continuing. Autumn flowers are starting to bloom and butterflies are visiting 🦋
#ozflora #ausinverts #wildoz #butterflies #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Vanessa cardui. Sierra Morena occidental. Marzo 2026.
Camuflaje perfecto!👍
#vanessa
#mariposa
#lepidoptera
#insect
#lepidóptero
#butterflies
Top view of a moth whose wings have a a bold black and creamy white pattern across them
The autumn nights are definitely getting cooler in the Perth Hills… down to a rather chilly 11°C last night 🍂
Still a few brave moths about though, including this rather lovely Scoparia exhibitalis.
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Painted Lady butterfly with orange mottled wings sitting on the ground with its wings extended and flat
View of a path between a grove of oak trees with spots of sun and shade. A faint patch of purple Camas can be seen in the grass
Enjoy this photo of a painted lady and the Common Camas just starting to bloom
#pnw #oregon #lepidoptera #wildflowers
A first record for Brighton, Semioscopis avellanella (Early Diviner)
#wildlife #entomology #NaurePhotography #nature #naturephotographer #brighton #insects #invertefest #ukwildlife #bugsky #lepidoptera #mothsmatter #moths #wildlifephotographer #naturalscience #sussex
A Madagascan Sunset Moth (Chrysiridia rhipheus) resting on a wall. Photo: flickr/Frank Vassen.
A Madagascan Sunset Moth (Chrysiridia rhipheus) resting on a leaf. Photo: via pinterest/Royce Gassman
It’s #MothMonday!
The Madagascan Sunset Moth (Chrysiridia rhipheus) was originally classified as a butterfly in 1773 by Dru Drury. It a diurnal moth (active during the day) and is endemic to Madagascar.
#entomology #lepidoptera #insect #climate #nature #wildlife #biodiversity #science
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What a day for butterflies & moths, Species number 10 & 11 of the year:
Green Hairstreak x 4
Holly Blue x 8
Speckled Wood x 3
Peacock x 12
Orange-tip x 4
Emperor Moth x 2
Pyrausta despicata x 1
Ancylis comptana x 5
Common Lizard x 1
#Butterflies #Moths #Butterfly #Lepidoptera
A monarch butterfly resting on a milkweed flower
It's spring! Don't forget to plant #milkweed for the monarch butterflies and all the other pollinators! 🦋🐝
#butterfly #monarch
#nature #naturephotography
#macro #macrophotography
#lepidoptera
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#pollinators #macromonday
Not UK! Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
I think these are Provence Orange-tip, Scarce Swallowtail...
#lepidoptera #UKButterflies
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Not UK! Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
I think these are Cleopatra, Green Hairstreak, GV or Southern Small White???, Lunar Double-stripe..
#lepidoptera #UKButterflies
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Not UK! Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
I think these are Baton Blue...
#lepidoptera #UKButterflies
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Lovely Green-veined White butterfly, Pieris napi in my garden this afternoon #lepidoptera #gardening #wildspaces #naturgarten
On this day in 2020 - A Comma butterfly seen in Pinewoods at Woodgate Country Park Birmingham UK - 06-04-20 #photography #butterflies #insects #lepidoptera #canon #macro #naturephotography #nature #uknature
Side view of a large moth hanging from a dry stem. The moth is green with brown markings on the sage and across the middle of the forewings. She has long green scales resembling hair at the back of the head
Aenetus djernaesae - Marie’s Splendid Ghost Moth
Spotted this stunning female Ghost Moth (Hepialidae) in a coastal area around 150km north of Perth last night. This species appears to be endemic to Western Australia.
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
A Snowshoe hare behind a multitude of twigs & branches, is facing the camera. It's large brown edged ears backlit by the sun, glow a pinkish orange in their centers.
#Mammal #Lepidoptera I tried so hard yesterday to get a decent shot of a Snowshoe Hare. Even though I managed to flush out 5 different ones, this was the best 'Easter Bunny' I could come up with. They had no patience for my shenanigans.
Also at College Lake (Buckinghamshire) one each of Speckled Wood (FoY), Orange Tip & Brimstone #ukbutterfly #butterflies #ukwildlife #lepidoptera @bbowt.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @ukbutterflies.bsky.social @europebutterfly.bsky.social
