Morpho (Balachowskyna) aurora aureola
Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira via DigitalNZ

http://api.digitalnz.org/records/39591626/source

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Coenonympha pamphilus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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Celastrina argiolus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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Butterfly Summer

Lens: Tamron 18-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di III-A VC VXD on a Fujifilm X-T30

#photography #photographer #insect #butterfly #flowers #leaves #sunshine #macrophotography #cumbria #summer #lepidoptera #papilionoidea #insectphotography #insectworld

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Speckled Wood butterfly at rest on a leaf

Lens: Tamron 18-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di III-A VC VXD on a Fujifilm X-T30

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Araschnia levana (Linnaeus, 1758)

Snapped a few weeks back and published under #CC0 here https://flic.kr/p/2r6V3sy

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Polygonia c-album (Linnaeus, 1758)

Snapped back in Aug. 2023, Loire Antlantique, France.

Pentax K-3iii + PENTAX-D FA MACRO 100mm F2.8 WR + ring light. Processed in Lightroom.

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Velvet Moonwing - Lunaria velutina

#butterfly #moth #Lepidoptera #larva #caterpillar
#insect #chrysalis #metamorphosis #pupa
#hesperiidae #imago #pollination
#papilionoidea #mimicry #nectar
#crepuscular #lycaenidae #antenna
#nymphalidae #iridescence

Crystallight Tiger - Tigris crystallis

#butterfly #moth #Lepidoptera #larva #caterpillar
#insect #chrysalis #metamorphosis #pupa
#hesperiidae #imago #pollination
#papilionoidea #mimicry #nectar
#crepuscular #lycaenidae #antenna
#nymphalidae #iridescence

A Common Mormon (Papilio polytes), female, that rested near my feet spotted at Pasir Ris Park, Singapore, on 21 Dec 2019. Much easer to take than when chasing it all over the place. :-)

On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/36818998 ].

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