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. Shallow depth of field. nature background. Hover fly feeding on a flower

Resting Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus)

Butterfly Marsh Fritillary. Euphydryas aurinia.

Great spangled fritillary on joe-pye weed in summer, top or dorsal view, showing the pattern on the back of the wings. The Latin word fritillus means chessboard or dice box. Fritillary is also a checkered flower.

Natural closeup on a colorful Icarus blue butterfly, Polyommatus icarus in the vegetation with open wings

Close-up of a common buckeye butterfly, with wings spread open, sitting o a white puffball wildflower in a green country field.

Squirrel on a tree branch looking at the camera.

macro shot of blue butterfly with soft green yellow background

Close up of white echium flowers in bloom

Beautiful Apollo (Parnassius apollo) resting on a Echium vulgare, known as viper's bugloss.

Japanese spiraea ( Spiraea japonica ) white flowers. Rosaceae deciduous shrub, endemic to Japan. Flowers bloom from early summer to summer.

$Aglais urticae is a common resident. Migrants are also often seen. Its distribution probably has not changed during the last century. However, the Dutch Monitoring Scheme shows a decline in numbers in the 1990s; the cause is not known.\nAdults can be seen looking for nectar in gardens, parks and on roadside verges. \nThe caterpillars feed on the smaller plants of Urtica dioica in very sunny, open spots.\nThe species flies in two generations from the beginning of March until the end of October. The adult butterfly hibernates in cool, dark places, such as barns, attics, or hollow trees.\n\nThe Picture is made along a small Brook in the Eifel (Germany) in halfway August 2021.$

Beautiful copper-butterfly on a green meadow. Animals in wildlife.

The Speckled Wood occurs in woodland, gardens and hedgerows. Butterflies often perch in sunny spots, spiralling into the air to chase each other.

An eastern gray squirrel feeds on berry in autumn in the Laurentian forest.

Filipendula vulgaris blooming in early summer in a pasture. Commonly known as dropwort or fern-leaf dropwort, is a perennial herbaceous plant in the family Rosaceae.

A meadow brown, or maniola jurtina butterfly ,on achillea

big brown butterfly on white flowers, Ringlet, Aphantopus hyperantus

A Douglas Squirrel (Tamiasciurus douglasii) perched in a tree eating. It is sometimes known as the chickaree or pine squirrel. They are found in the Pacific Northwest of North America, including the coastal states of the United States as well as the southwestern coast of British Columbia.

The herb kvanne - Angelica, in blooming. Wild herbs

Great spangled fritillary seeming to smile as its proboscis goes into a flower of joe-pye weed. Sharply focused on the eyes and head. The butterfly's striking pattern inspires its name. The Latin word fritillus means chessboard or dice box. The spangles are the silvery white spots on the underwings.

bees in pollen, bee eats seeds of onion pollen,

$Brenthis daphne, the marbled fritillary, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.\nDescription:\nBrenthis daphne has a wingspan of 30–44 millimeters. Wings are rather rounded, the basic color of the upper side of the forewings is bright orange, with an incomplete black marginal band. The underside of the hindwings have a yellowish postdiscal band and the marginal area is completely suffused with purple, with a marble effect (hence the common name). The quadrangular patch on the underside hindwing is partially shaded orange pink to outer side. The chrysalis has two dorsal rows of thorns with bright spots and a bright metallic shine.\nThis species is very similar to the lesser marbled fritillary (Brenthis ino), but the latter is slightly smaller and the coloration of said patch is completely yellow.\nBiology:\nThe butterfly flies from late May to early August depending on the location. The eggs are laid separately in July on the leaves of the host plants. The larvae feed on brambles (Rubus fruticosus), raspberry (Rubus idaeus), Rubus caesius, Rubus sachalinensis, Sanguisorba officinalis and Filipendula species, while adults usually feed on nectar from brambles, thistles and other flowers. This species is univoltine. It overwinters at the caterpillar stage in the egg shell. \nDistribution and habitat:\nThis widespread species is present in the Palearctic ecozone from the southern parts of the continental Europe (northern Spain, southern France, Germany, Italy and eastwards to Slovakia and Greece), up to Caucasus, western Siberia. It prefers warm and sunny forest edges, woodland and bushy areas where the host plants grow, at an elevation of 75–1,750 meters above sea level (source Wikipedia).\n\nThis Picture is made during a Vacation in Bulgaria in May 2018.$

Brown Argus butterfly on a blade of grass in a nature reserve. Stukeley Meadows Nature Reserve Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.

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