There's lots of shoots coming up now, look more like Narcissus than Fritillary #narcissus #fritillary
Belgium, Checkered Lily (Liliaceae, Fritillaria meleagris) #belgium #flowers #fritillary #macrophotography #gardenflowers
After careful consideration, I had to come up with my own classification for this particular Melitaea sp. & future observations of similar individuals. More in alt text but TL;DR this may be an unusual M. athalia but differenciation is based on male genitals alone, which sounds as horribly outdated as it may be.

(I also collected more scratches on my legs than individual species whilst crossing my local FFH territory.)

#Lepidoptera #Butterfly #Fritillary #HeathFritillary (?) #Insect #Nature

Face to face with the Marsh #Fritillary. Not the angle at which you usually see this beautiful #Butterfly in photos, but this one presented me with the opportunity for a ‘head-on’ portrait so I went with it (and I rather like the result)! Another shot from my visit to the Butterfly Conservation reserves at Prestbury Hill in #Gloucestershire last month.

#MarshFritillary #Insect #Insects #insekt #Nature #NaturePhotography #Natuur #NatuurFotografie #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #SmallWonders

I was delighted to meet the magnificent Marsh #Fritillary for the first time yesterday, at the Prestbury Hill nature reserves of Butterfly Conservation in #Gloucestershire. My thanks to the two gentlemen who kindly helped me find these and other beautiful #Butterflies at these special sites.

#Butterfly #Schmetterling #MarshFritillary #Insect #Insects #Nature #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography

Blooming season is here! In the next two weeks wetland meadows in and around Ljubljana are adorned with its most signature protected species. #snakeshead #fritillary #močvirskalogarica #biodiversity #livadabiotope #bioindicatorspecies

Variegated Fritillary (Euptoieta claudia) on Dahlia in Norman, Oklahoma, United States on October 25, 2024

Some of the camera settings I used to make this photo are at: https://www.rsok.com/~jrm/2024Oct30_birds_and_cats/2024oct25_butterfly_IMG_2182c.html

#butterfly #fritillary #Euptoieta #pollinators #bloomscrolling #naturephotography #Oklahoma #photography

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