🦋 Two beautiful mating Orange Tip butterflies, wings closed, hiding the famous orange tips and revealing the pretty mossy green and white underwing pattern instead.

Easy to overlook when still, unmistakable once they take flight.

#SpringSigns #Butterflies #NottsNature #OrangeTip

👋 Good Morning Bluesky friends! Lovely to see the butterflies! #butterflies

Collage picture from my garden this week of a bumble bee collecting nectar, wild strawberry flowers, wild garlic flowers, a holly blue butterfly (I think) on a bluebell and a brown speckled wood butterfly.

Wild things.

#bloomscrolling #bees #butterflies

Gavarnie Ringlet (Erebia gorgone) © Jon Dunn

Purple-edged Copper (Lycaena hippothoe) © Jon Dunn

Apollo (Parnassius apollo) © Jon Dunn

Catalonian Furry Blue (Polyommatus fulgens) © Jon Dunn

The Hautes Pyrenees are a stunningly beautiful montane area, and home to a magnificent variety of #butterflies, including some fine endemics and near-endemics. We explore both French and Spanish sides of the mountains, at a relaxed pace ideal for photography. (2/2)

Thanks to @rina2012.bsky.social for her patronage of #ButterflyWeek. I'm off to a good start this year, with two new species added to my life list already. Here's one of them from the reed beds along the Cote d'Azur shore near Fréjus: a Southern Festoon

#photography #macroMonday #butterflies

(late post) #ColourADay #ColorADay #OrangeSun #ArtChallenge #photography #butterflies #SmallTortoiseshell

Lovely to see butterflies around again. This Peacock landed on dry grass on a walk in our Essex village

#Butterfly #Butterflies #wildlife #ukwildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography

@savebutterflies.bsky.social
@ukbutterflies.bsky.social

#EastCoastKin #ArtChallenges #prompt #ECK #BugSky #Butterflies

Dear Nigel Farage & Kemi Baddenoch... the 'betrayal' was Brexit!

Dear Sir Keir... go for broke...alignment is Pay & Obey No Say. #Breturn

#DumpTrump Foil #Farage Bin #Baddenoch Exit #Brexit

#r4Today #Butterflies

Orange and black spiky caterpillar clinging to a brown, wet, bent, dead blade of grass, against a black background (made in camera by not having any reflective surface within about a foot of the diffused flash).

Gulf Fritillary caterpillar
(Agraulis vanillae)

CREW flint pen strand trails
Bonita Springs, Florida 4-9-26

Found by a wild passion flower vine.

#macroMonday #eck #bugSky #Lepidoptera #butterflies #caterpillars #macro #photography #rainy #macroPhotography #nature #art

Cropped view of a realistic painting of a brown/red/white/black moth in a black/red ornate 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 moth. 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.

Cecropia moth painting, available on my website: www.nataliejunewernimoon.com

#painting #moth #entomology #sciart #nature #wildlife #oddities #insects #moths #butterflies #paintings #art

comma butterfly (Polygonia c-album). The outer margins of the wings are strongly and irregularly dentate, excavated and angulated. The upper side of the wings has a bright orange color, decorated with brown marks and light spots on the edge. It sits on a leaf near the forest floor, surrounded by more plants.

Last one: this comma butterfly (Polygonia c-album). Quite common, but always a pleasure to spot.
#spring #butterfly #butterflies

Peacock butterfly (Aglais io) sunbathing on a leaf. It has rusty red wings with distinct eye-like markings at its wing tips.

Another peacock butterfly (Aglais io). Its one frayed wing implies an encounter with a predator or some other mishap.
#spring #butterfly #butterflies

Lis Sam’s Dreamlike Butterfly-Inspired Portraits Lis Sam’s art series, 'Blossoming Girls,' presents a mesmerizing exploration of transformation through portraiture. The portraits are composed of faces intertwined with swarms of butterflies, petals, and delicate fragments of nature, which initially appear scattered but form a coherent image when observed from a distance. The work balances fragility and control, offering intricacy without an overly polished finish and a surreal quality that remains grounded in human figures. Inspired by a butterfly conservatory in southern France, Sam treats these natural elements as the structural foundation of each portrait rather than mere decoration. The resulting pieces are detailed, dreamlike, and slightly disorienting, inviting viewers to engage with the tension between chaos and order. The series demonstrates a unique approach to portraiture, blending fine art with elements of nature to create emotionally evocative and visually captivating works.

Lis Sam’s Dreamlike Butterfly-Inspired Portraits

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#portraiture #butterflies

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A checkered skipper butterfly rests on a horizontal blade of grass, wings spread wide. The background is green foliage, out of focus.

For #ButterflyWeek, a checkered skipper #butterflies #nature #insects #wildlife #photography

Orange tip butterfly (Anthocharis cardamines) sitting on a plant. It has white wings with bright orange tips, hence its name.

An orange tip butterfly (Anthocharis cardamines) on a yellow flower. Its wings are closed, revealing a camouflage pattern of yellow and green specks against white.

On my wishlist, and it delivered: this orange tip (Anthocharis cardamines). Beautiful butterfly with camouflage markings on the flipside of its wings. This is the female.
#spring #butterfly #butterflies

A Pararge aegeria butterfly resting on a leaf. It is mostly brown with yellow spots speckled around the edges of its wings. That’s why it’s also called the speckled wood.

On to flower visitors, although this one appeared to be resting. It’s a butterfly! More accurately, a Pararge aegeria, or speckled wood.
#spring #butterfly #butterflies

A butterfly rests on a Cuckoo flower.

More and more butterflies appearing now. This Orange Tip was taking a break after some frantic chasing of a mate.

#Butterflies #Insects #Sussex

#photography #flowers #flowerphotography #wildlife #lilac #lilacblooms #butterflies #pollinators #spring #april

First sighting this year of a Horace's Duskywing butterfly; on Red Dead-nettle flowers in our lower meadow.

#Photography99 📷🌱 #Butterflies 🦋

A Common Blue🦋 #SundayYellow #Butterflies #Insects #Nature #Photography #ECK

Monarch butterfly wings painted in watercolor by Tim Knight

Winging it in watercolor

Learning new techniques for painting insects while having fun experimenting with color mixing.

Used a variety of brushes for painting monarch wings.

#butterfly #wings #watercolor #painting #monarch #sciart #butterflies #insect #painting #art #insect #illustration

@rina2012.bsky.social invited us all to join a #ButterflyWeek and that is definitely an invite which cannot be missed 😊 Starting with a Silver-washed Fritillary (keisarinviitta)🦋

#Butterflies #Insects #ColorADay #OrangeSun #Stunday #Summer #SundayYellow #Nature #ECK

#Butterflies... now 138 seats...

Green Veined White on Willow

Female Orange Tip on a Violet

Male Orange Tip

Fluffed up Chiffy

And we had a walk round afterwards,only Speckled Wood,Green Veined White and Orange Tip #butterflies on the wing between showers @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social . Nice to see female OT and watch a Chiffchaff preening.

Well #Butterflies ...this is looking good for Magyar, for Europe, for Democracy. A supermajority may be in the bag.

Bad for Putin, Trump & one hopes all Nationalist, Oligarchic, Autocratic leaning parties across the World.

#DumpTrump Purge #Putin Foil #Farage & Exit #Brexit

Single butterfly seen today was this male Orange Tip, my local meadow, Malvern, Worcestershire. @worcswt.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social #Butterflies

Skipper butterfly (small tan/brown color) on Mealy Blue Sage flowers

Red Admiral Butterfly resting on rocks with wings extended

Sonoran Bumblebee foraging on Mealy Blue Sage flowers

A few pollinators spotted yesterday on a trip to Pedernales Falls State Park Tx. Two butterflies (a skipper-Julia's vs Dun, and a Red Admiral Butterfly) plus a Sonoran Bumblebee.
Look at that heart shape on the bumblebee. 🐝 Bee love❤️ y'all!
#bumblebees #butterflies #pollinators #nativeplantmonth

#fanart #tadc #theamazingdigitalcircus #kinger #3dmodel #3dmodeling #3dmodelingapp #digitalart #butterflies

Vibrant green Luna Moth in our doorway

This beautiful visitor heard it was #butterflyweek and wanted to make an appearance. Not a butterfly, just a gorgeous Luna Moth.

#nature #lifeinthewoods #butterflies #moth