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Close-up of green spotted malachite butterfly.

Close-up of green spotted malachite butterfly.
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Close-up of green spotted malachite butterfly.

Beautiful butterfly with wide multicolored red and yellow wings on a leaf in a tropical botanical garden near Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Beautiful butterfly with wide multicolored red and yellow wings on a leaf in a tropical botanical garden near Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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Beautiful butterfly with wide multicolored red and yellow wings on a leaf in a tropical botanical garden near Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Butterfly sitting on a dandelion.

Butterfly sitting on a dandelion.
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Butterfly sitting on a dandelion.

Beautiful butterfly sitting on a leaf.

Beautiful butterfly sitting on a leaf.
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Beautiful butterfly sitting on a leaf.

Rows of butterfly cocoons and newly hatched butterfly.

Chrysalis vs Cocoon
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Rows of butterfly cocoons and newly hatched butterfly.

Beautiful red butterfly isolated on white background

Beautiful red butterfly isolated on white background
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Beautiful red butterfly isolated on white background

Viceroy Butterfly can be found in Florida
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Viceroy Butterfly (Limenitis archippus) on vegetation in northern Illinois.

A Black Swallowtail Butterfly feeding on Zinnia flowers in the garden.

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A Black Swallowtail Butterfly feeding on Zinnia flowers in the garden.

Butterfly Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa sitting on a flower on a blurred background stock photo Camberwell, Mourning Cloak Butterfly, Animal, Animal Wildlife, Backgrounds Butterfly Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa sitting on a flower on a blurred background close-up

Mourning Cloak Butterfly
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Mourning Cloak butterflies boast a stunning combination of colors and patterns.

Australian Cairns Birdwing Butterfly

Birdwing butterfly
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One of the largest butterflies in the world, the birdwing butterfly can also be poisonous.

Common Indian Crow Butterfly sits on flower during day light with macro closeup details and beautiful pink celosia flowers and green nature, background. animals and wildlife Odisha, India

Common Indian crow butterfly
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The common Indian crow butterfly expels a toxic liquid that causes its predators to vomit.

Atala Butterfly on a flower.

Atala Butterfly
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The atala butterfly is able to metabolize the toxic cycad plant, though its predators cannot.

Queen Butterfly on Flower

Queen butterfly
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Among other plants, the queen butterfly feeds on poisonous milkweed.

Largest Stingrays - Butterfly Ray
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A butterfly ray blending in with the bottom of the ocean

blue butterfly on pink flowers high up
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Butterflies populations are essential to most ecosystems.

Closeup of a monarch butterfly pollinating a bright pink zinnia flower - Michigan

Monarch Butterfly
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A Monarch butterfly rarely uses its forelegs.

Zebra Longwing Butterfly (Heliconius charithonia)

Zebra Longwing Butterfly
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butterflies in preservation process
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Fun fact: Butterflies are found on every continent except Antarctica.

butterflies in preservation process
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Fun fact: Butterflies can see red, green, and yellow.

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Butterflies only fly during the day and rest their wings after dark.

butterfly laying eggs on leaf
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Butterflies have various strategies for laying their eggs.

butterfly laying eggs on leaf
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Butterfly eggs are unique to each species.

Closeup of a monarch butterfly pollinating a bright pink zinnia flower - Michigan

Monarch Butterfly
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Monarch butterflies are beautiful, but they also happen to be one of the most poisonous insects.

How Many Eyes Do Butterflies Have
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How Many Eyes Do Butterflies Have

Aglais io or European Peacock Butterfly or Peacock

How Many Eyes Do Butterflies Have
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Butterfly with beautiful eyespots on its wings.

butterfly on heliotropium
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Butterflies know that the most vibrant blooms provide the sweetest nectar.

Portrait of green skipper butterfly from Dominicana through a microscope. Astraptes habana.

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A close-up of the eyes of a green skipper butterfly from Dominicana through a microscope.

Zebra Longwing Butterfly (Heliconius charithonia)

Zebra Longwing Butterfly drinking nectar
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Zebra Longwing Butterfly drinking nectar

Raising Butterflies
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Raising Butterflies
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A butterfly, Siproeta stelenes, feeding on oranges at the Butterfly House of Viagrande in Sicily.

Raising Butterflies
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The life cycle of color segeant butterfly ( Athyma nefte ) from caterpillar and pupa to butterfly.

Common Blue butterfly (Polyommatus icarus) perched on a grass stem

common blue butterfly on a flower
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Butterflies are found on every continent except Antarctica.

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Swallowtail Butterfly
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Butterfly (Pipevine Swallowtail) on a Milkweed plant - colorful side view.

Butterfly Close-Up
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A butterfly's sense of taste is in its feet.

swarm of monarch butterflies, Danaus plexippus group during sunset (3d rendering banner)

Butterfly migration during sunset
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Zebra Longwing Butterfly (Heliconius charithonia)

Zebra Longwing Butterfly
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As far as biologists know, the zebra longwing butterfly is one of the few butterflies that actually eat pollen.

Natural winter spring background. Red and blue leaves and beautiful butterflies in snow and ice.

Butterflies in the Winter
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Butterflies typically go into a dormant stage during the winter.

Beautiful close up of a peacock butterfly. Inachis io. With its wings spread, sitting on a thistel flower with other insects. With green background and summer sunlight

Peacock Butterfly on a Thistle
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This peacock butterfly is enjoying the garden during the day; at night, it will become less active.

A butterfly sleeping on a plant. Orange and yellow sunset sky in the background. Summer evening in nature.

A Sleeping Butterfly at Dusk
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A Sleeping Butterfly at Dusk

Peleides Blue Morpho on flower blossom

Blue Morpho Butterfly
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When the Blue Morpho butterfly sleeps, it folds its wings to reveal a pattern that helps to ward off predators.

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Morpho menelaus, the Menelaus blue morpho, is an iridescent tropical butterfly of Central and South America

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Rarest Butterflies in the World

Palos Verdes Blue Butterfly on green grass

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Palos Verdes Blue Butterfly on green grass. They are thought to be one of the rarest species of butterflies found in the world because they are endemic to their very small range of habitat.

Clouded Yellow butterfly (Colias croceus) fedding on nectar of flower on green background. Wildlife scene in nature. France. shutterstock Rudmer Zwerver 1997110229

butterfly drinking nectar from flower
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Butterflies are attracted to flowers that receive full sunlight.

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A male Kaiser-i-Hind or Emperor of India Butterfly, Teinopalpus imperialis, sitting on a bright yellow flower.

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One of the reasons the Schaus Swallowtail is unique is because it can stop suddenly in mid-air and fly backwards to avoid its predators.

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Blue Morpho Butterfly, Morpho peleides. Their vivid, iridescent blue coloring is a result of the microscopic scales on the backs of their wings, which reflect light.

Differing stages of life from caterpillar to cocoon to butterfly

Butterfly Life Cycle
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Butterfly Life Cycle
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The life cycle of the butterfly is captivating. Here, we see three different stages of it.

The Palawan Birdwing or Triangle Birdwing Butterfly, Trogonoptera trojana

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What Do Butterflies Eat Black-veined White butterfly, Aporia crataegi - perfect macro details

What Do Butterflies Eat
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What Do Butterflies Eat

What Do Butterflies Eat
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A lime butterfly sipping nectar from a beautiful flower. Butterflies are cold-blooded and can't fly if their body temperature is less than 30 degrees Celsius.

Two Monarch Butterflies with wings spread on a Pink Cone Flower

Animals that don't poop – Monarch butterfly
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Butterflies cannot poop because they only drink nectar.

Two Monarch Butterflies with wings spread on a Pink Cone Flower

Animals that don't poop – moarch butterfly
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Butterflies cannot poop because they only drink nectar.

Close-up of green spotted malachite butterfly

Close-up of green spotted malachite butterfly
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Close-up of green spotted malachite butterfly

Yellow Animal – Orange-barred sulpher butterfly
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This eye-catching butterfly is also incredibly fast.

Animals that use mimicry – viceroy butterfly
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Harmless viceroy butterflies use Batesian mimicry to defend themselves against predators.

How Long Do Butterflies Live Butterfly Flower Images. Beautiful butterfly on blue flowers..This photo contains a beautiful butterfly with wings sitting on blue colored flowers.a nice cute and latest nature photo of flowers.

How Long Do Butterflies Live
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How Long Do Butterflies Live

How Long Do Butterflies Live

How Long Do Butterflies Live
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Blue butterfly sitting on a beautiful flower. Butterflies don't have a mouth; instead they 'suck' food up with a kind of drinking-straw-like apparatus called a proboscis.

How Long Do Butterflies Live

How Long Do Butterflies Live
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Chrysalis Butterfly hanging on a leaf. Inside the chrysalis, the pupa changes into an adult butterfly. This transformation can take a few days for some kinds of butterflies or up to a year for others!

How Long Do Butterflies Live

How Long Do Butterflies Live
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Monarch butterfly egg (Danaus plexippus), New Jersey (1x.6mm). Butterflies glue their eggs to leaves. The egg would be destroyed if anything tried to remove them from the plant.

Most Colorful Animals: Blue Morpho Butterfly

Most Colorful Animals: Blue Morpho Butterfly
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Beautiful close up view of the electric blue morpho butterfly in Costa Rica. Blue is actually an extremely rare color in nature.

Amazing Rainforest Animal: Orange Albatross Butterfly

Amazing Rainforest Animal: Orange Albatross Butterfly
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Orange Albatross Butterfly sitting on a leaf. Butterflies, like the Orange Albatross Butterfly, use their feet to taste.

Smallest Butterflies

Smallest Butterflies
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Smallest Butterflies: Western Pygmy Blue Butterfly A tiny brown butterfly native to Arizona called the Western Pygmy-Blue. The blue coloring is only visible when its wings are spread open.

Smallest Butterflies: Western Pygmy Blue Butterfly
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A tiny brown butterfly native to Arizona called the Western Pygmy-Blue. The blue coloring is only visible when its wings are spread open.

Smallest Butterflies: Grizzled Skipper

Smallest Butterflies: Grizzled Skipper
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A rare Grizzled Skipper Butterfly (Pyrgus malvae) on a Cowslip flower. The grizzled skipper is a very scarce butterfly from the family Hesperiidae in Britain, but that is widespread throughout Europe.

Smallest Butterflies: Common Sootywing

Smallest Butterflies: Common Sootywing
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Dorsal view of a male Common Sootywing butterfly resting on a blade of grass. To find receptive females, males patrol near the ground in sunny places; mating takes place in the morning and afternoon.

By Charles J. Sharp - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=42475690 Common blue butterfly (Polyommatus icarus) male, Lowbury Hill, Oxfordshire Charles J. Sharp / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=42475690 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

Smallest Butterflies Marine Blue
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Adults of the Marine Blue butterflies are on wing from April to September in the north, and all year round in south.

Smallest Butterflies: Little Metalmark

Smallest Butterflies: Little Metalmark
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Little Metalmark butterfly resting on dried grass, in the Pine Meadows Conservation Area Eustis, Florida

Smallest Butterflies: Least Skipper

Smallest Butterflies: Least Skipper
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A Least Skipper is collecting nectar from a purple Thistle flower. The butterfly rarely gets higher than a couple feet above the ground as it slowly and somewhat choppily moves through vegetation.

Smallest Butterflies: Eastern Tailed Blue

Smallest Butterflies: Eastern Tailed Blue
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A male Eastern Tailed-Blue perching on a mint flower in a garden, showing the tiny tail on its hindwings.

Largest Insects - Butterflies

Largest Insects - Butterflies
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Queen Alexandra is the biggest butterfly with a wingspan on 11 inches.

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Blue Morpho, Morpho peleides, big butterfly sitting on green leaves, beautiful insect in the nature habitat, wildlife from Amazon in Peru, South America.

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Butterfly in Kampung Juara, Pulau Tioman

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Butterfly, Kabil-Sepilok Forest Reserve

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Butterfly, Kabil-Sepilok Forest Reserve

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Peacock Butterfly, early spring

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Small butterfly, Sepilok Rainforest Discovery Centre

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Small Tortoiseshell and Peacock Butterfly

Monarch Butterflies have a very distinct orange, black, and white coloring. They go through 4 stages: egg, larvae, pupa, and adult.

Monarch butterfly isolated on white background
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Monarch butterfly isolated on white background

Monarch Butterflies have a very distinct orange, black, and white coloring. They go through 4 stages: egg, larvae, pupa, and adult.

Monarch butterfly on orange cosmos flowers
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Monarch butterfly on orange cosmos flowers

Monarch Butterflies have a very distinct orange, black, and white coloring. They go through 4 stages: egg, larvae, pupa, and adult.

A monarch butterfly takes a well deserved break on the shores of Lake Superior in Minnesota on its northward return to Canada from Mexico.
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A monarch butterfly takes a well deserved break on the shores of Lake Superior in Minnesota on its northward return to Canada from Mexico.

Monarch Butterflies have a very distinct orange, black, and white coloring. They go through 4 stages: egg, larvae, pupa, and adult.

Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) and chrysalis cocoon
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Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) and chrysalis cocoon

Monarch Butterflies have a very distinct orange, black, and white coloring. They go through 4 stages: egg, larvae, pupa, and adult.

Monarch butterfly larva hanging on a leaf
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Monarch butterfly larva hanging on a leaf

Monarch Butterflies have a very distinct orange, black, and white coloring. They go through 4 stages: egg, larvae, pupa, and adult.

Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, Michoacan, Mexico
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Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, Michoacan, Mexico

Monarch Butterflies have a very distinct orange, black, and white coloring. They go through 4 stages: egg, larvae, pupa, and adult.

Two Monarch butterflies and flowers in garden on bank of the Lake Ontario in Toronto, Canada
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Two Monarch butterflies and flowers in garden on bank of the Lake Ontario in Toronto, Canada