Butterfly Animal Pictures
Close-up of green spotted malachite butterfly.
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.
Butterfly sitting on a dandelion.
Butterfly sitting on a dandelion.
Beautiful butterfly sitting on a leaf.
Beautiful butterfly sitting on a leaf.
Rows of butterfly cocoons and newly hatched butterfly.
Rows of butterfly cocoons and newly hatched butterfly.
Beautiful red butterfly isolated on white background
Beautiful red butterfly isolated on white background
Viceroy Butterfly (Limenitis archippus) on vegetation in northern Illinois.
A Black Swallowtail Butterfly feeding on Zinnia flowers in the garden.
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 butterflies boast a stunning combination of colors and patterns.
Australian Cairns Birdwing Butterfly
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
The common Indian crow butterfly expels a toxic liquid that causes its predators to vomit.
Atala Butterfly on a flower.
The atala butterfly is able to metabolize the toxic cycad plant, though its predators cannot.
Queen Butterfly on Flower
Among other plants, the queen butterfly feeds on poisonous milkweed.
A butterfly ray blending in with the bottom of the ocean
Butterflies populations are essential to most ecosystems.
Closeup of a monarch butterfly pollinating a bright pink zinnia flower - Michigan
A Monarch butterfly rarely uses its forelegs.
Zebra Longwing Butterfly (Heliconius charithonia)
Zebra Longwing Butterfly
Fun fact: Butterflies are found on every continent except Antarctica.
Fun fact: Butterflies can see red, green, and yellow.
Butterflies only fly during the day and rest their wings after dark.
Butterflies have various strategies for laying their eggs.
Butterfly eggs are unique to each species.
Closeup of a monarch butterfly pollinating a bright pink zinnia flower - Michigan
Monarch butterflies are beautiful, but they also happen to be one of the most poisonous insects.
How Many Eyes Do Butterflies Have
Aglais io or European Peacock Butterfly or Peacock
Butterfly with beautiful eyespots on its wings.
Butterflies know that the most vibrant blooms provide the sweetest nectar.
Portrait of green skipper butterfly from Dominicana through a microscope. Astraptes habana.
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
Raising Butterflies
A butterfly, Siproeta stelenes, feeding on oranges at the Butterfly House of Viagrande in Sicily.
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
Butterflies are found on every continent except Antarctica.
Hokkaido, japan
Swallowtail Butterfly
Butterfly (Pipevine Swallowtail) on a Milkweed plant - colorful side view.
A butterfly's sense of taste is in its feet.
swarm of monarch butterflies, Danaus plexippus group during sunset (3d rendering banner)
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Zebra Longwing Butterfly (Heliconius charithonia)
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 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
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
Peleides Blue Morpho on flower blossom
When the Blue Morpho butterfly sleeps, it folds its wings to reveal a pattern that helps to ward off predators.
Morpho menelaus, the Menelaus blue morpho, is an iridescent tropical butterfly of Central and South America
Rarest Butterflies in the World
Palos Verdes Blue Butterfly on green grass
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
Butterflies are attracted to flowers that receive full sunlight.
A male Kaiser-i-Hind or Emperor of India Butterfly, Teinopalpus imperialis, sitting on a bright yellow flower.
Photo: University of Florida/Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences By U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region - Schaus Swallowtail Butterfly, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45513662 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region / Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en Photo: University of Florida/Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
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.
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
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
What Do Butterflies Eat Black-veined White butterfly, Aporia crataegi - perfect macro details
What Do Butterflies Eat
What Do Butterflies Eat
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
Butterflies cannot poop because they only drink nectar.
Two Monarch Butterflies with wings spread on a Pink Cone Flower
Butterflies cannot poop because they only drink nectar.
Close-up of green spotted malachite butterfly
Close-up of green spotted malachite butterfly
This eye-catching butterfly is also incredibly fast.
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
How Long Do Butterflies Live
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
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
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
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
Orange Albatross Butterfly sitting on a leaf. Butterflies, like the Orange Albatross Butterfly, use their feet to taste.
Smallest Butterflies
Smallest Butterflies
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.
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
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
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
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
Little Metalmark butterfly resting on dried grass, in the Pine Meadows Conservation Area Eustis, Florida
Smallest Butterflies: Least Skipper
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
A male Eastern Tailed-Blue perching on a mint flower in a garden, showing the tiny tail on its hindwings.
Largest Insects - Butterflies
Queen Alexandra is the biggest butterfly with a wingspan on 11 inches.
Butterfly (Papilionoidea)
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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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Butterfly at Jimmys Farm
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Butterfly at Jimmys Farm
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Butterfly at Jimmys Farm
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Butterfly at Jimmys Farm
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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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
