Butterfly Cupcake
Chocolate cake with vanilla cream cheese frosting and a fondant butterfly.
This was for a little girl's 6th birthday.
Great Spangled Fritillary butterfly
I guess you might call this a 'life butterfly' for me. While this photo of a Great Spangled Fritillary (Speyeria cybele) was taken on 8/20/08, (at Davidson's Mill Pond Park in South Brunswick, NJ, near the Earth Center), I have been seeing them here for about a month. It appears to be feeding on Black Knapweed. This has been a rich site for butterflies and dragonflies and very well worth a visit.
View On Black…very crisp detail in this image.
No, the plant is not New York Ironweed. Different leaf characteristics. Thanks to those of you who asked. Keeps me on my toes.
Butterfly King on the Thistle
The Monarch butterfly on a Yellow Thistle, a Texas Wildflower, has just chased away the
lovely Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly and retained feeding rights on this thistle bloom.
Info on the Monarch -Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758)-
Family: Nymphalidae-Subfamily: Danainae
Identification: Upperside of male is bright orange with wide black borders and black veins;
hindwing has a patch of scent scales. Upperside of female is orange-brown with wide
black borders and blurred black veins. Both sexes have white spots on borders and apex.
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail-Papilio glaucus Linnaeus, 1758
Family: Papilionidae -Subfamily: Papilioninae
Identification: Male is yellow with dark tiger stripes.
Female has 2 forms: one yellow like the male and the other black with shadows of dark stripes. Hindwing of both female forms has many iridescent blue scales and an orange marginal spot.
beach butterfly
"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne ~
source: 4Real
Common Lime Butterfly, Papilio demoleus
one of my favorite butterflies
Papilio demoleus, the Common Lime Butterfly, is a common and widespread Swallowtail butterfly. It gets its name from its host plants which are usually citrus species such as the cultivated lime. Unlike most swallowtail butterflies it does not have a prominent tail.
The butterfly is tailless and has a wingspan 80–100 mm.
Papilio demoleus is an aggressive and very common butterfly. It is perhaps the most widely distributed swallowtail in the world.
It is an interesting butterfly in that it has a number of modes of flight. In the cool of the morning, the flight is slow considering that it is an edible and unprotected swallowtail. As the day progresses, it flies fast, straight and low. In the hotter part of the day, it may be found settling on damp patches where it will remain motionless, except for an occasional flutter of wings, if not disturbed.
more Informations: Papilio demoleus, the Common Lime Butterfly
Papilio demoleus, auch bekannt unter der englischen Bezeichnung Chequered Swallowtail (karierter Schwalbenschwanz) ist ein Schmetterling aus der Familie der Ritterfalter (Papilionidae).
Die Falter erreichen eine Flügelspannweite von 80 bis 90 Millimetern. Die Art kommt mit gelben oder weißen Flecken vor; die Vorderflügel sind jedoch stets schwarz.
Es gibt im Flügelmuster keine Geschlechtsunterschiede, beide haben die gleichen Flügelzeichnungen und denselben Körper, welcher auf der Oberseite schwarz und auf der Unterseite gelb bzw. weiß ist.
Vorkommen:
Sein Verbreitungsgebiet liegt in der indoaustralischen Faunenregion, wo die Art oft häufig vorkommt. Im Westen erstreckt es sich bis zur Arabischen Halbinsel. Er bewohnt die tropischen und subtropischen Wälder, aber auch anthropogene Lebensräume. Inzwischen wurde er bereits in die Dominikanische Republik verschleppt.
Lebensweise:
Die Falter von Papilio demoleus legen ihre Eier vor und nach dem Monsun. Die Eier werden einzeln auf den Blättern gelegt. Die Raupen ernähren sich ausschließlich von Zitruspflanzen (Citrus), was oft zu schädlichem Auftreten führt.
Quelle: Wikipedia
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Butterfly blue
A bright lively depiction of a butterfly using acrylic inks and pen work, with ink spatters to give life and vibrancy!
Monarch butterfly and his orange friend
Butterfly garden at the Minnesota Zoo. Apple Valley, Minnesota.
www.mnzoo.com/
Butterfly with Attitude
I've seen many butterfly photos but none at this angle. It makes the bug look a bit scary. This photo was taken with one of those "macro" zooms criticized by many as not being up to standard. It's not macro based on the traditional 1:1 definition, but it worked for this image. This photo was taken in Deerfield, Massachusetts at a place called Magic Wings. There are hundreds, if not thousands of live butterflies in this place. It is open year round. This one is a Clipper (Parthenos sylvia) butterfly which is in the same family as the Malachite. Thanks to selfliberatingflikr for clarifying the type of butterfly.