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#butterflies — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #butterflies, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Two-eyed eighty-eight butterfly (Callicore pitheas) is a tropical brush-footed butterfly known for the distinctive number-like patterns and eye spots on its hind wings. Found from from Mexico (Chiapas) through Central America down to Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador.
    #butterflies #butterfly #nature #insects

  2. Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus)
    Butterfly 2021-35

    Wisdom can be found in unexpected places
    Only if we choose to notice

    #butterfly #butterflies #monarch #macro #photography #monday #photo #mramsdellpics

  3. The Cabbage White Butterfly: Trying to Understand Something Ordinary

    The Cabbage White Butterfly: Trying to Understand Something Ordinary I remember the first time I deliberately tried to identify a butterfly. I was maybe seven or eight, sitting in my relatives's garden, and this white butterfly kept landing on the vegetables. My relative said it was a cabbage white butterfly, and I remember asking her why it was called that. She said something like "because it's white and it eats cabbage," which seemed to answer the question completely at the […]

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  4. Went back to Palomar Mountain State Park to to what shakes up there for #butterflies in September and to check out lower Doane Valley, which I haven’t seen before. There was a large orange fast flyer that caught me so off guard I forgot to turn my camera on. I think it was a Fritillary of some kind. Otherwise not unusual but nice to see stuff.

  5. Slim pickings last night. Summer moths gone and Autumn moths yet to pick up for me. Lots of Large Yellow Underwings, but #MothOfTheDay is a:

    L-ALBUM WAINSCOT
    Mythimna l-album

    Largely restricted to Southern Counties of the UK. Like damp places and larvae feed on grasses.

    #moths #moth #mothsandbutterflies #butterflies #MothsMatter #nature #wildlife #britishwildlife #lepidoptera #entomology #insect #cute #garden #summer #autumn #september #conservation #biodiversity #alttext #science #educate

  6. Slim pickings last night. Summer moths gone and Autumn moths yet to pick up for me. Lots of Large Yellow Underwings, but #MothOfTheDay is a:

    L-ALBUM WAINSCOT
    Mythimna l-album

    Largely restricted to Southern Counties of the UK. Like damp places and larvae feed on grasses.

    #moths #moth #mothsandbutterflies #butterflies #MothsMatter #nature #wildlife #britishwildlife #lepidoptera #entomology #insect #cute #garden #summer #autumn #september #conservation #biodiversity #alttext #science #educate

  7. Slim pickings last night. Summer moths gone and Autumn moths yet to pick up for me. Lots of Large Yellow Underwings, but #MothOfTheDay is a:

    L-ALBUM WAINSCOT
    Mythimna l-album

    Largely restricted to Southern Counties of the UK. Like damp places and larvae feed on grasses.

    #moths #moth #mothsandbutterflies #butterflies #MothsMatter #nature #wildlife #britishwildlife #lepidoptera #entomology #insect #cute #garden #summer #autumn #september #conservation #biodiversity #alttext #science #educate

  8. Slim pickings last night. Summer moths gone and Autumn moths yet to pick up for me. Lots of Large Yellow Underwings, but #MothOfTheDay is a:

    L-ALBUM WAINSCOT
    Mythimna l-album

    Largely restricted to Southern Counties of the UK. Like damp places and larvae feed on grasses.

    #moths #moth #mothsandbutterflies #butterflies #MothsMatter #nature #wildlife #britishwildlife #lepidoptera #entomology #insect #cute #garden #summer #autumn #september #conservation #biodiversity #alttext #science #educate

  9. Slim pickings last night. Summer moths gone and Autumn moths yet to pick up for me. Lots of Large Yellow Underwings, but #MothOfTheDay is a:

    L-ALBUM WAINSCOT
    Mythimna l-album

    Largely restricted to Southern Counties of the UK. Like damp places and larvae feed on grasses.

    #moths #moth #mothsandbutterflies #butterflies #MothsMatter #nature #wildlife #britishwildlife #lepidoptera #entomology #insect #cute #garden #summer #autumn #september #conservation #biodiversity #alttext #science #educate

  10. A couple of species of orange #butterflies in the backyard yesterday, feeding on #nativeplants .

  11. A couple of species of orange #butterflies in the backyard yesterday, feeding on #nativeplants .

  12. A couple of species of orange #butterflies in the backyard yesterday, feeding on #nativeplants .

  13. A couple of species of orange #butterflies in the backyard yesterday, feeding on #nativeplants .

  14. A couple of species of orange #butterflies in the backyard yesterday, feeding on #nativeplants .

  15. A Red Admiral that has alighted on a tree trunk along the Pierce Road, Harvard #Forest. If it had closed its wings vertically above its body, the underside pattern would have blended in perfectly with the bark of the tree.

    #forest #naturephotography #butterfly #butterflyphotography #insectphotography #butterflies #nature #biology #biodiversity #lepidoptera #insects #entomology #pollinators #trees

  16. A Red Admiral that has alighted on a tree trunk along the Pierce Road, Harvard #Forest. If it had closed its wings vertically above its body, the underside pattern would have blended in perfectly with the bark of the tree.

    #forest #naturephotography #butterfly #butterflyphotography #insectphotography #butterflies #nature #biology #biodiversity #lepidoptera #insects #entomology #pollinators #trees

  17. A Red Admiral that has alighted on a tree trunk along the Pierce Road, Harvard #Forest. If it had closed its wings vertically above its body, the underside pattern would have blended in perfectly with the bark of the tree.

    #forest #hasselblad #naturephotography #butterfly #butterflyphotography #insectphotography #butterflies #nature #biology #biodiversity #lepidoptera #insects #entomology #pollinators #trees

  18. A Red Admiral that has alighted on a tree trunk along the Pierce Road, Harvard #Forest. If it had closed its wings vertically above its body, the underside pattern would have blended in perfectly with the bark of the tree.

    #forest #hasselblad #naturephotography #butterfly #butterflyphotography #insectphotography #butterflies #nature #biology #biodiversity #lepidoptera #insects #entomology #pollinators #trees

  19. A Red Admiral that has alighted on a tree trunk along the Pierce Road, Harvard #Forest. If it had closed its wings vertically above its body, the underside pattern would have blended in perfectly with the bark of the tree.

    #forest #hasselblad #naturephotography #butterfly #butterflyphotography #insectphotography #butterflies #nature #biology #biodiversity #lepidoptera #insects #entomology #pollinators #trees