Painted Lady (Vanessa Cardui)
Butterfly 2017-125

Good things can happen
Even on bad days

#butterfly #butterflies #believe #macro #photography #beauty #nature #photodaily #photos #thephotohour #mramsdellpics

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐗🐾 Banded #mongooses in #Uganda groom #warthogs for #food. Honeyguide #birds in #Mozambique lead people to #honey, receiving leftover wax.

New #research shows how different species use #sounds, visuals, and #chemicals to coordinate these mutual benefits, showing that interspecies partnerships rely on flexible, shared #information.

👉 https://phys.org/news/2026-06-animals-communicate-species-boundaries.html

#communication #animals #ecology #evolution #biology #fish #ants #butterflies #dolphins

#MothOfTheDay is another from the 'Prominent' family

MAPLE PROMINENT
Ptilodon cucullina

As its name suggests, larvae feed off Field Maple and Sycamore. Not overly common but more common in Southeast UK than anywhere else.

#moths #moth #mothsandbutterflies #butterflies #MothsMatter #nature #wildlife #britishwildlife #lepidoptera #entomology #insect #cute #garden #spring #June #conservation #biodiversity #alttext

Wee black animals on the Kyoto Trail Higashiyama today.

The moth is Pidorus atratus. The flatworm is Bipalium nobile (which can grow to be up to 1 meter long and secretes a neurotoxin -- enjoy the view but don't touch!).

#naturephotography #animals #hiking #kyoto #japan #butterflies #wildlife

Becoming, 2026
Oil on Reclaimed Upholstery Fabric on Masonite Board, 12 x 16”

#art #artwork #recycled #upcycle #painting #oilpainting #mastoart #butterfly #butterflies #figurativeArt

Gonepteryx rhamni (Citron) sur Lythrum salicaria (Salicaire Commune).

Citadelle de Lille, juillet 2023

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Gonepteryx rhamni (Common brimstone) sur Lythrum salicaria (Purple-loosestrife).

Citadelle de Lille, july 2023


#gonepteryxrhamni #citron #commonbrimstone #gonepteryx #pieridae #piéridés #lepidoptera #lépidoptères #butterflies #citadelledelille #boisdeboulognelille #hautsdefrancenature #hautsdefrance #insectedefrance #insectesdefrance #insecte #insectes #biodiversité #biodiversity #nature
I released this pretty girl this morning. She flew from flower to flower for almost an hour before going on her way. #monarch #butterfly #butterflies #Lepidoptera #Illinois #nature #photography #SaveTheMonarch
Aporia crataegi (fam. Pieridae)

2026/06/13

[ES] No sé qué hacían estas mariposas, solo sé que no paraban de batir las alas en el sitio. Quizá peleaban por ocupar el cardo o una intentaba copular y la otra no estaba receptiva… ni idea. He recortado la foto en cuadrado porque no me gustaba cómo quedaba en vertical ni en horizontal; solución salomónica.

[EN] I don't know what this two butterflies were doing. They kept beating their wings on the place. Maybe they were fighting or one of them was trying to copulate and the other wasn't receptive… I have no idea. I've crop the photo in a square because I didn't like how it looked horizontally nor in vertically; a Solomonic solution.

ISO 200, s 1/500, f/5,0. A pulso/Handheld.

#lepidoptera #pieridae #aporia #AporiaCrataegi
#mariposa #butterfly #butterflies #insects #bugs #insecto #bicho #arthropods
#macro #macrophotography #macrofotografía #naturaleza #nature