While I'm waiting impatiently for my new wildlife camera/lens to arrive I'm having to use my Panasonic GX9 travel camera for everything, so this isn't the sharpest image. Of all the butterflies listed as common in my part of Scotland, the Comma is the one I see least often, so this was a lovely surprise this morning.
#photography #butterflies #insects #wildlife
These little fellas were so hard to get close to. Every so often one will give up for a while and let you take a shot.
Have a great Saturday :)
Butterfly Magic by Joan Stratton
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The number of Monarch butterflies wintering in Mexico rebounded this year #environment #wildlife #butterfly #butterflies #climate #ClimateChange https://apnews.com/article/monarch-butterflies-mexico-climate-change-8b34f96d0441da8eb53977373659e463
#Gardeners 
, planting milkweed and butterfly weed is totally helping! This makes me very happy!!
Today's Good News!
The number of monarch butterflies overwintering this year in Mexico has nearly doubled, according to the annual census released last week by the World Wildlife Fund in Mexico and their partners.
During the last few months in 2025, the population of eastern monarchs occupied 4.42 acres of central Mexico’s forests—up from 2.22 acres during the previous winter
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Auregoodnews #butterflies
For #LearnAboutButterfliesDay:
The Science and Splendor of Australian #Butterflies : How Two 19th-Century Teenage Sisters' Forgotten Paintings Sparked a Triumph of Modern Conservation
https://www.themarginalian.org/2020/07/30/harriet-helena-scott-butterflies-australia/
A kaleidoscope of butterflies for #WorldButterflyDay. It’s also #PiDay so I feel this the symmetries of this print which I laid out with a compass and some geometric tricks, seems apt.
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There are three each of the orange Isabella’s Longwings (Nymphalidae Eueides isabella), three yellow Eastern tiger swallowtails (Papilio glaucus), and three blue Red-Spotted Purples (Limenitis arthemis astyanax) in this #linocut kaleidoscope.⠀
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#printmaking #sciart #butterflies #typography #mastoart #insect
Here's one of the few North American butterflies whose numbers are actually increasing: The Gulf Fritillary, Dione incarnata (previously known as Agraulis incarnata, or Dione vanillae, or Agraulis vanillae, taxonomists are awful, this thing doesn't even eat vanilla anyway) #butterflies #Dione #Insects
Honored that "The English Garden" tied for second place in the Fine Art America 3/4/2025 contest "Creating a Whimsical and Dynamic Abstract Scene
ONLY DIGITAL." Many thanks to contest administrator, Angeldadae Tzimitra, and to everyone who voted for my image. Congratulations to the other winners!!
At my webstie: https://lois-bryan.pixels.com/featured/the-english-garden-lois-bryan.html
Spring is in the air, happy Tuesday!
Available here..https://tina-lecour.pixels.com/featured/swallowtail-in-the-wisteria-tina-lecour.html
Monarch butterflies undertake a huge migration each year. As cold weather approaches, millions leave their home range in Canada and the US and begin flying south to S California or Mexico, nearly 2,500 miles away.
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#MonarchButterflies #Butterflies #OriginalArt #Drawing #PenAndInk #ColourPencil #MixedMedia #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #MothersDay
My little art shop has a selection of nature and landscape drawings in a variety of subjects to please everyone. All one of a kind originals at affordable prices for gifts.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheWeeOwlArt
A new analysis shows that the U.S. has lost more than one-fifth of its butterflies in just two decades. @TheConversationUS explains what’s causing the decline, why you should care, and what you can do to help reverse it.
