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  • You can find this beautiful Paper Kite Butterfly at the Saint Louis Zoo Butterfly House.
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  • A gorgeous butterfly hanging out on a leaf at the Butterfly House at the Saint Louis Zoo.
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  • A Galactic Monarch Butterfly Perched on A Flower Cluster with a Bit of Neon Flare
    Galactic Butterfly.jpg
  • A Paper Kite Butterfly smelling the roses at the Butterfly House at the Saint Louis Zoo.
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  • A Glory Morning Butterfly Backed By Glistening Morning Light
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  • A Butterfly in Patriotic Colors of Red, White and Blue
    Need and ID.jpg
  • This beautiful black bodied swallowtail is black with shiny blue or green wings. It has blue between two rows of orange spots on the underside of the hind wings and the colors on the upper side of the hind wings have one row of white spots. The caterpillars look like small snakes, having large eyespots; they hide in folded leaves during the day and come out to feed in the evenings. The chrysalis is either brown or green resembling the stem in which it is attached. These butterflies are a pleasure to watch and a welcome visitor to any garden.
    Spicebush Swallowtail Butterfly.jpg
  • Two beautiful butterflies hanging out on a flower pot at the Butterfly House at the Saint Louis Zoo.
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  • Fractal Lines And Patterns With Colors And Light Lets The Imagination Run Wild. This creation started with a photo of butterflies and moths fluttering around a light. Somehow it ended up like this :)
    Crazy Color Twist.jpg
  • Visions of Butterflies Dance In Pastels Around The Warmth Of Light
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  • A Monarch Butterfly in Fluid Style Perches atop A Yellow Wildflower During Afternoon Showers.<br />
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The monarch is famous for its southward migration and northward return in summer from Canada to Mexico and Baja California which spans the life of three to four generations of the butterfly<br />
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Monarchs are especially noted for their lengthy annual migration. In North America, they make massive southward migrations starting in August until the first frost. A northward migration takes place in the spring. The monarch is the only butterfly that migrates both north and south as the birds do on a regular basis, but no single individual makes the entire round trip. Female monarchs deposit eggs for the next generation during these migrations.<br />
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Monarch butterflies are poisonous or distasteful to birds and mammals because of the presence of the cardiac glycosides contained in milkweed consumed by the larvae. The bright colors of larvae and adults are thought to function as warning colors. During hibernation, monarch butterflies sometimes suffer losses because hungry birds pick through them looking for the butterflies with the least amount of poison, but in the process kill those they reject.
    Butterfly Striations.jpg
  • Owl Butterfly 1.jpg
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  • Butterfly Lines.jpg
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  • I was not originally going to post this, but as a friend pointed out it would work quite well in a kids play room or bedroom. So... I changed my mind :)
    Unknown Textured Butterfly.jpg
  • The longwing butterflies have unusually long lifespans and high fecundity rates, which largely result from their augmented diet. Instead of surviving on food stores from the larval stage or solely sipping flower nectar, adult longwing butterflies are avid pollen eaters. These trait make them eminently suitable for butterfly farming and butterfly gardening. Also, Adult Longwings may live for several months, much longer than most butterflies.<br />
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The longwing butterflies are also known as Heliconians. They are brightly colored butterflies with long forewings. Once placed in their own family, they are now considered closely related to the fritillaries. Larvae of most longwings  feed on passion vines, and this host plant imparts noxious chemicals to the larvae which are carried over to the adult butterflies. This relationship is identical to the monarch butterflies' reliance on its host plant, milkweed, for defense. Predators find these chemicals distasteful and avoid eating the butterflies.
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  • A Paper Kite Butterfly Rests On Top Of Fluid Pink Floral Blossoms In The Garden.<br />
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The Paper Kite, Rice Paper, or Large Tree Nymp butterfly (Idea leuconoe) is known especially for its presence in butterfly greenhouses and live butterfly expositions. The Paper Kite is of Southeast Asian origin.
    Paper Kite on Liquid Blossoms.jpg
  • Monarch butterflies embark on a marvelous migratory phenomenon. They travel between 1,200 and 2,800 miles or more from the United States and Canada to central Mexican forests. There the butterflies hibernate in the mountain forests, where a less extreme climate provides them a better chance to survive. The monarch butterfly is known by scientists as Danaus plexippus, which in Greek literally means "sleepy transformation." The name evokes the species' ability to hibernate and metamorphize. Adult monarch butterflies possess two pairs of brilliant orange-red wings, featuring black veins and white spots along the edges. Males, who possess distinguishing black dots along the veins of their wings, are slightly bigger than females. Each adult butterfly lives only about four to five weeks.
    Morning Monarch Glow.jpg
  • A flowing Monarch perched on a vibrant chive against a soft blue backdrop. The Monarch butterfly is a milkweed butterfly, in the family Nymphalidae. It is perhaps the best known of all North American butterflies
    Monarch Blues on Chives.jpg
  • I have no clue what kind of flower or plant this is.  I photographed this flower on the inside of the Butterfly House at the Saint Louis Zoo...I just thought it was beautiful and it touched me the moment I noticed it.  I was just hoping my photographing of this flower would do it justice...I hope you enjoy this beautiful flower as much as I do.  Happy Friday Everyone
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  • A Vanessa Atalanta (Red Admiral) Butterfly perched atop a vibrant pink flowering thistle. This large butterfly is identified by its striking dark brown, red, and black wing pattern. More specifically, the dark wings possess orange bands that cross the fore wings and on the outer edge of the hind wings; white spots on the dorsal fore wings near the front margin; reddish bars on dorsal surface of all four wings.
    Vanessa Atalanta on Flowering Thistl...jpg
  • A Monarch Butterfly Rests On Purple Flowering Chives in Evening Light
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  • A Monarch Butterfly perched on wild chives on a moody overcast morning in a Wentzville, Missouri field
    Moody Monarch.jpg
  • The spicebush swallowtail butterfly is a large, dark swallowtail. It is one of our most beautiful and interesting swallowtails. All developmental stages are great examples of adaptive coloration. The wingspread range is 4.1 to 5.6 cm. The upper surface of the fore wings is black with a narrow marginal row and a broader submarginal row of light yellow row spots. The upper surfaces of the hind wings also have the rows of spots, but they are light green in color. The median areas of the hind wings are dusted with blue in females and blue-green to green in males.
    Spicebush In Wildflowers.jpg
  • A tiny green butterfly in a adds some brightness to the early morning
    Little Green Butterfy.jpg
  • A Monarch Butterfly perched atop yellow wildflowers on a backdrop of Faded Green
    Monarch on Faded Green.jpg
  • The American Painted Lady or American Lady is a butterfly found throughout North America. Vanessa virginiensis lives in flowery habitats, usually in mountains. The larvae feed on various Asteraceae, especially the cudweeds of genus Gnaphalium
    Painted Lady on Daisies - Vanessa Vi...jpg
  • The Cynthia group of colourful butterflies, commonly called painted ladies, comprises a subgenus of the genus Vanessa in the Family Nymphalidae. They are well known throughout most of the world.
    Painted lady -Vanessa Cardui.jpg
  • Visions of butterflies in a field of blowing dandelions
    Flutterby Fantasy.jpg
  • Visions of Monarch Butterflies Adorn tiny floral blooms against a backdrop of greeen
    Butterbloom Dreams.jpg
  • Butterfly Profile.jpg
  • Poking a macro lens into the weeds can reveal some hidden magic.
    Morning Garden Butterfly.jpg
  • The Paper Kite 11.jpg
  • Swallowtail 2.jpg
  • Monarch 11.jpg
  • The Paper Kite 2.jpg
  • The Paper Kite 16.jpg
  • Swallowtail 4.jpg
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  • Monarch 16.jpg
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  • Blue Morpho 2.jpg
  • Monarch 8.jpg
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  • Monarch 17.jpg
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  • The Paper Kite 3.jpg
  • The Paper Kite 1.jpg
  • Blue Morpho 3.jpg
  • Monarch 9.jpg
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  • Monarch 19.jpg
  • Monarch 1.jpg
  • The Postman 1.jpg
  • The Paper Kite 7.jpg
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  • The Paper Kite 13.jpg
  • Swallowtail 7.jpg
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  • Blue Morpho 5.jpg
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  • Monarch 7.jpg
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  • A Monarch Rests On Purple Flowering Chives in Evening Light
    Monarch on Moody Chives.jpg
  • Northern Pearly-eye 6.jpg
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  • This moth was hanging out on the screen of my gazebo. The face of this moth reminds me of a bat.
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  • A closeup of what I believe to be a Clipper Butterfly in the garden on my Aster flowers
    Clipper Butterfly.jpg
  • A tiny butterfly lands on tom of a white wildflower
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  • Fireflies and Butterflies Fly By Vibrant Fire Lights at Night
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  • A Trippy Floral Fantasy Splashed By Psychedelic Colors and Lines
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  • Unknown Butterfly - Moth.jpg
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