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Butterflies

312 images Created 23 Oct 2009

Selection of various butterflies from around the world, butterfly, flying, eggs, ova, caterpillar, larvae, pupae, hatching, flight, mating, paring, colourful, worldwide, world-wide
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  • Brimstone Butterfly, Gonepteryx rhamni, UK, resting on flower
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  • Brimstone Butterfly, Gonepteryx rhamni, in flight, UK, high speed photographic technique, free flying
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  • Brimstone Butterfly, Gonepteryx rhamni, in flight, UK, high speed photographic technique, free flying
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  • Brimstone Butterfly, Gonepteryx rhamni, in flight, UK, high speed photographic technique, free flying
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  • Common Blue Butterfly, Polyommatus icarus, male in flight, high speed photographic technique, flying over crown vetch, coronilla varia, pink flower, blue wing colour produced by diffraction of sunlight on corrugates scales which absorb all colours of specturm except blue, wings contain no blue pigment.United Kingdom....
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  • Large or Cabbage White Butterfly, Pieris brassicae, in flight, high speed photographic technique, flying over eggs laid on cabbage leaf.United Kingdom....
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  • Large or Cabbage White Butterfly, Pieris brassicae, in flight, high speed photographic technique, flying over eggs laid on cabbage leaf.United Kingdom....
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  • Painted Lady Butterfly, Cynthia cardui, adult, in flight, high speed photographic technique, flying over buddelia, migrant to UK.United Kingdom....
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  • Painted Lady Butterfly, Cynthia cardui, adult, in flight, high speed photographic technique, flying over buddelia, migrant to UK.United Kingdom....
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  • Large or Cabbage White Butterfly eggs with newly hatched caterpillars, Pieris brassicae, larvae, laid on host plant of cabbage leaf, yellow, cluster, group, macro, inside, hatching, emerging, feeding on egg casing.United Kingdom....
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  • Large or Cabbage White Butterfly eggs with newly hatched caterpillars, Pieris brassicae, larvae, laid on host plant of cabbage leaf, yellow, cluster, group, macro, inside, hatching, emerging, feeding on egg casing.United Kingdom....
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  • Large or Cabbage White Butterfly eggs with newly hatched caterpillars, Pieris brassicae, larvae, laid on host plant of cabbage leaf, yellow, cluster, group, macro, inside, hatching, emerging, feeding on egg casing.United Kingdom....
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  • Large or Cabbage White Butterfly eggs with newly hatched caterpillars, Pieris brassicae, larvae, laid on host plant of cabbage leaf, yellow, cluster, group, macro, inside, hatching, emerging.United Kingdom....
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  • Large or Cabbage White Butterfly eggs, Pieris brassicae, laid on host plant of cabbage leaf, yellow, cluster, group, macro.United Kingdom....
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  • Large or Cabbage White Butterfly eggs, Pieris brassicae, laid on host plant of cabbage leaf, yellow, cluster, group, macro.United Kingdom....
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  • Large or Cabbage White Butterfly eggs, Pieris brassicae, laid on host plant of cabbage leaf, yellow, cluster, group, macro.United Kingdom....
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  • Large or Cabbage White Butterfly eggs, Pieris brassicae, laid on host plant of cabbage leaf, yellow, cluster, group, macro.United Kingdom....
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  • Red Admiral Butterfly, Vanessa atalanta, In flight, free flying, High Speed Photographic Technique.United Kingdom....
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  • Red Admiral Butterfly, Vanessa atalanta, In flight, free flying, High Speed Photographic Technique.United Kingdom....
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  • Small Heath Butterfly, Coenonympha pamphilus, In flight, free flying, High Speed Photographic Technique.United Kingdom....
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  • Small Heath Butterfly, Coenonympha pamphilus, In flight, free flying, High Speed Photographic Technique.United Kingdom....
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  • Small Skipper Butterfly, Thymelicus sylvestris, In flight, free flying, High Speed Photographic Technique.United Kingdom....
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  • Brown Argus Butterfly, Plebeius agestis, Female, In flight, free flying, High Speed Photographic Technique.United Kingdom....
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  • Marbled White Butterfly, Melanargia galathea, In flight, free flying, High Speed Photographic Technique.United Kingdom....
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  • Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly, Aglais urticae, in flight, free flying through stinging nettles, high speed photographic technique. . .United Kingdom....
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  • Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly, Aglais urticae, in flight, free flying through stinging nettles, high speed photographic technique. . .United Kingdom....
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  • Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly, Aglais urticae, in flight, free flying through stinging nettles, high speed photographic technique. . .United Kingdom....
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  • Comma butterfly Polygonia c-album, wings open resting on leaf, brown yellow. .United Kingdom....
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  • Large Cabbage White Butterfly, Pieris brassicae, cluster of eggs due to hatch caterpillars inside larvae lifecycle.United Kingdom....
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  • Cethosia biblis Butterfly, wings open, Borneo, red and black colour, South Asia.Borneo....
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  • Giant Orange Tip Butterfly, Hebomoia glaucippe, wings open, Thailand, South Asia.Thailand....
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  • Peacock Pansy Butterfly, Precis almana, Thailand, South Asia.Thailand....
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  • Great Eggfly Butterfly, Hypolimnas bolina, pair mating, Thailand, South Asia.Thailand....
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  • Glasswing Butterfly, Creta oto, pupae or chrysalis, Ecuador, South America.Ecuador....
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  • Charaxes castor Butterfly, side view, underside of wings, Congo West Africa.Africa....
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  • Chocolate Albatros Butterfly, Appia lyncida, Thailand, yellow and brown colour.Thailand....
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  • Red Admiral Butterfly, Vanessa atalanta, adult on apple, showing underside of wings.United Kingdom....
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  • Green Birdwing Butterfly, Ornithoptera priamus, New Guinea and Australia, Pupae hatching sequence, wings crumpled, drying, green and black.Australia....
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  • Duke of Burgundy Fritillary Butterfly, Hamearis lucina, pupae or chrysalis in moss, cocoon.United Kingdom....
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  • Laxita orphna butterfly, family Nemeobiidae, red orange, blue and white stripes, side view showing underside of wings, Sabah, Borneo.Borneo....
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  • Green Birdwing Butterfly, Ornithoptera priamus, New Guinea and Australia, Pupae hatching sequence, wings drying, green and black.Australia....
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  • Painted Lady Butterfly, Cynthia cardui, adult, side view showing underside of wings, on stinging nettle.United Kingdom....
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  • Painted Lady Butterfly, Cynthia cardui, pupae or chrysalis, haning on stinging nettle, darkened ready to hatch, showing butterfly inside.United Kingdom....
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  • Dark Green Fritillary, Argynnis aglaga, Butterfly, adult, head on view showing compound eyes and antenna.United Kingdom....
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  • Dark Green Fritillary, Argynnis aglaga, Butterfly, adult, wings up showing underside, pearly spots.United Kingdom....
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  • Small Copper Butterfly, Lycaena phlaeus, adult, side view of underside of wings, on leaf.United Kingdom....
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  • Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly, Aglais urticae, egg mass, ova on stinging nettle.United Kingdom....
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  • Peacock Butterfly, Inachis io, pupae or chrysalis, on stinging nettle, hatching sequence, emerging, wings crumpled.United Kingdom....
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  • Peacock Butterfly, Inachis io, pupae or chrysalis, on stinging nettle, hatching sequence, emerging, .United Kingdom....
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  • Peacock Butterfly, Inachis io, pupae or chrysalis, on stinging nettle, hatching sequence, emerging, .United Kingdom....
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  • Brimstone Butterfly, Gonepteryx rhamni, adult, showing underside of wings, green on purple flower and background.United Kingdom....
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  • Orange Tip Butterfly, Anthocharis cardamines, adult, female, wings closed showing underside, probiscus feeding on flower.United Kingdom....
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  • Wood White Butterfly, larvae or caterpillar, Leptidea sinapis, on bird s foot trefoil, foodplant, yellow flower.United Kingdom....
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  • Crab Spider with skipper sp. butterfly prey, on white flower.Thailand....
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  • Morpho peleides Butterfly, underside of wings, Belize, showing eye spots.Belize....
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  • Tailed Jay Butterfly, Graphium agamemnon, larvae, caterpillar, food plant - Annonaceae.Malaysia....
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  • Purple Emperor Butterfly, Apatura iris, male, drinking on fallen fruit showing probiscus, Kent, tongue.United Kingdom....
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  • Purple Emperor Butterfly, Apatura iris, male, drinking on fallen fruit showing probiscus, Kent, tongue.United Kingdom....
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  • Red Admiral Butterfly, Vanessa atalanta, pupae or chrysalis hanging, ready to hatch, showing butterfly inside, red colour, stinging nettle food plant, metamorphosis.United Kingdom....
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  • Red Admiral Butterfly, Vanessa atalanta, pupae or chrysalis hanging, stinging nettle food plant, metamorphosis.United Kingdom....
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  • Red Admiral Butterfly, Vanessa atalanta, caterpillar, larvae hanging on stinging nettle, preparing to pupate, food plant, hairy black spiky.United Kingdom....
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  • Red Admiral Butterfly, Vanessa atalanta, caterpillar, larvae on stinging nettle, food plant, hairy black spiky.United Kingdom....
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  • Red Admiral Butterfly, Vanessa atalanta, caterpillar, larvae on stinging nettle, food plant, hairy black spiky.United Kingdom....
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  • Monarch Butterfly, Ova, Danaus plexippus, egg, single, macro.USA....
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  • Monarch Butterfly, Danaus plexippus, pupa chrysalis becoming transparent before hatching sequence .USA....
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  • Monarch Butterfly, Danaus plexippus, blue pupa / chrysalis, cocoon, sequence  .USA....
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  • Swallowtail (Papilio machaon) - butterfly on white flower, yellow and black colour, in UK only inhabits fenlands of Norfolk lifecycle.United Kingdom....
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  • Swallowtail Butterfly, Papilio machaon - on flower, showing full wing span and colours, yellow and black, very rare species, lifecycle, in UK only inhabits fenlands of Norfolk lifecycle.United Kingdom....
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  • Swallowtail (Papilio machaon) - butterfly, egg or ova, in UK only inhabits fenlands of Norfolk macro lifecycle.United Kingdom....
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  • Swallowtail butterfly - caterpillar emerging from egg ova lifecycle larvae insect Papilio machaon, macro.United Kingdom....
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  • Swallowtail butterfly - ova Papilio machaon eggs macro .United Kingdom....
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  • Swallowtail Butterfly, caterpillar, warning colours, poisonous,  larva Papilio machaon .United Kingdom.Nature.Wildlife.Animal.Behaviour.Endangered.Lifecycle.Metamorphosis.Insects.P-but007-47.Robert Pickett.www.papiliophotos.com  Tel: +44 (0)1227 360996.PLEASE READ OUR LICENCE TERMS. ALL DIGITAL IMAGES MUST BE DESTROYED UNLESS OTHERWISE AGREED IN WRITING..
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  • Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus) - on yellow flowerhead, orange with white spots lifecycle, metamorphosis pattern wings.USA....
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  • Blue morpho (Morpho peleides) - butterfly pupae hatching tropical rainforest jungle sequence lifecycle metamorphosis.Central America....
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  • Morpho Peleides butterfly, flying in jungle, Central America, Belize, Costa Rica, digitally enhanced.Digital....
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  • Papilio protesilaus butterfly against sunset, digitally enhanced.Digital....
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  • Morpho Peleides Butterfly, wings open, blue, jungle, rainforest, .Belize....
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  • Tawny Coster Butterfly, Acraea terpsicore, Bandhavgarh National Park, orange on grass stem, wings open.India....
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  • Blue Pansy Butterfly, Precis orithya, Bandhavgarh National Park, wings open showing blue and eyespots.India....
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  • Yellow Orange Tip Butterfly, Ixias pyrene, feeding on flower, Bandhavgarh National Park, backlight, underside of wings.India....
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  • Common Gull Butterfly, Cepora nerissa, feeding on flower, blue sky background, Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand, Northern India, .India....
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  • Blue Butterfly, Forget-me-not, Catochrysops strabo , on red flower, Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand, Northern India, .India....
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  • Common Pierrot Butterfly, Castalius rosimon, black and white, backlight, Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand, Northern India.India....
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  • Common Sailor Butterfly, Neptis hylas, black and white stripes, Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand, Northern India.India....
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  • Graphium colonna Butterfly, head on view showing eyes and antennae, swordtail, long tail, on leaf, forest.Africa....
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  • Graphium colonna Butterfly, side view of wings closed, swordtail, long tail, on leaf, forest.Africa....
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  • Papilio constantinus Butterfly, side view of wings closed resting on leaf, brown, tails, East Africa.Africa....
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  • Papilio ophidocephalus Butterfly, swallowtail, colourful, eye spots, black yellow on leaf.Africa....
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  • Red Postman Butterfly, Heliconus erato, resting underneath leaf, black and red, rainforest, jungle, collects and digests pollen, several months life span .South America....
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  • Red Postman Butterfly, Heliconus erato, resting underneath leaf, black and red, rainforest, jungle, collects and digests pollen, several months life span .South America....
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  • Mocker Swallowtail Butterfly, Papilio Dardanus, side view of wings resting on flower, brown, male, .Africa....
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  • Belenois sp. Butterfly, on flower, side view, West Africa.Gambia....
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  • Various butterfly wings, seen in daylight lighting....
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  • Various butterfly wings, seen in infra red lighting....
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  • Autumn Leaf Butterfly, Doleschallia bisaltide, Nymphalidae sp. Malaysia adult side view wings closed Thailand on pink flower.Malaysia....
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  • Papilio cresphontes, butterfly caterpillar, resembles bird droppings, camouflage, feed on citrus.USA....
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  • Mother of Pearl Butterfly, Salamis parhassus, resting on leaf, underside of wings with eye spots, Central Africa.Africa....
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  • Cruiser Butterfly, Vindula dejone, hanging on pupae, just hatched, drying wings, female, chrysalis, soft background.Malaysia....
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  • Cruiser Butterfly, Vindula dejone, hanging on pupae, just hatched, drying wings, female, chrysalis, soft background.Malaysia....
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  • Blue Glassy Tiger Butterfly, Tirumala septentrionis, hatching from pupae case.Thailand....
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