Polygonia C-Album

  

The Life of Animals | Polygonia C-Album | The Comma has a white marking on its underwings resembling a comma. The wings have a distinctive ragged edge, Apparently a cryptic form as the butterfly resembles a fallen leaf. The caterpillars are also cryptic, resembling a bird dropping. In the UK the larvae feed on hop, stinging nettles, elm, and black currants; in other parts of its distribution (eg, in Sweden) it also feeds on Sallow and birch.

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Inachis Io

  

The Life of Animals | Inachis Io | The European Peacock (Inachis io), more commonly known simply as the Peacock butterfly, is a colourful butterfly, found in Europe, temperate Asia as far east as Japan. The Peacock butterfly is resident in much of its range, often wintering in buildings or trees. The Peacock butterfly has figured in research where the role of eye-spots as anti-predator mechanism has been investigated

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Cethosia Cyane

 

The Life of Animals | Cethosia Cyane | Hind wing: three or four spots just beyond apex of cell, a subterminal row of spots and the termen broadly black, the last with a series of white lunules as on the fore wing. Underside variegated with red, white, pale blue, ochraceous and black; the terminal margins of both wings broadly black with white lunules as on the upperside; in the middle of each lunule a short white streak from the margin

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Greta Oto

  

The Life of Animals | Greta Oto | The wings are translucent, with a wingspan of 5.6 to 6.1 cm (2.2 to 2.4 in) Its most common English name is glasswinged butterfly, and its Spanish name is "espejitos", which means "little mirrors."

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Dryas Iulia

 

  

The Life of Animals | Dryas Iulia | Dryas iulia (often incorrectly spelled Julia) commonly called the Julia Butterfly, Julia Heliconian, or The Flame, is a species of brush-footed butterfly.

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Morpho

  

The Life of Animals | Morpho | A Morpho butterfly may be one of over 80 species of butterflies in the genus Morpho. They are Neotropical butterflies found mostly in South America as well as Mexico and Central America. Morphos range in wingspan from the 7.5 cm (3 inch) M. rhodopteron to the imposing 20 cm (8 inch) Sunset Morpho, M. hecuba. Many Morpho butterflies are colored in metallic, shimmering shades of blue and green.

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Polyura Athamas

 

The Life of Animals | Polyura Athamas | Upperside black. Fore and hind wings with a discal broad transverse area from below vein 4 in fore wing to vein 2 on hind wing, a moderately large spot in interspace 5, a minute preapical dot beyond in interspace 6 on fore wing, and a subterrninal row of spots with two or three spots beyond them on the tornal angle of the hind wing, pale yellow, sometimes with an ochraceous, sometimes with a greenish tinge.

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Rama-rama Monarch

 

  

The Life of Animals | Rama-rama Monarch | The Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus, subfamily: Danaidae - Milkweed butterfly family), is perhaps the most well-known of all North American butterflies. Like all insects, Monarch butterflies have 6 jointed legs, 3 body parts, a pair of antennae, compound eyes and an exoskeleton. Its wings are coloured an easily recognizable orange and black pattern, with a wingspan of 8.5 – 12.5 centimetres (3.34 inches – 4.92inches).

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Lange's Metalmark

 

    

The Life of Animals | Lange's Metalmark  | Large-scale sand mining and industrial development fragmented the sand dune habitat until only a small portion of the original ecosystem remained. Nonnative grasses and vegetation encroached on the sand dunes to crowd the few remaining endangered plants. By the time the Antioch Dunes Refuge was established, only a few acres of remnant dune habitat supported the last natural populations of the endangered Antioch Dunes evening-primrose, Contra Costa wallflower, and Lange's metalmark.

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Riodinidae

 

  

The Life of Animals | Riodinidae | The Riodinidae (or metalmarks) are a family of butterflies. There are approximately 1,000 species of metalmark butterflies in the world. Although mostly neotropical in distribution, the family is represented both in the New World and the Old World

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Gonepteryx Rhamni

 

  

The Life of Animals | Gonepteryx Rhamni | On the upper side the male is sulphur yellow and the female white with a greenish tinge but both have an orange spot in the centre of each wing. G. rhamni lives in Europe, North Africa and Asia as far east as Mongolia.

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Delias Eucharis

  

The Life of Animals | Delias Eucharis | Upperside is white. The forewings have the veins broadly black, this colour broadened triangularly at the termination of the veins, costal margin narrowly black; a broad black postdiscal transverse band from costa to dorsum sloped obliquely outwards from costa to vein 4, thence parallel to termen. Hind wing with the veins similar but for three-fourths of their length much more narrowly black; a postdiscal transverse black band as on the forewing but much narrower, curved and extended only between veins 2 and 6; beyond this the veins are more broadly black and this colour as on the forewing broadens out triangularly at the termination of the veins; the interspaces beyond the postdiscal black band pink, due to the vermilion coloration of the underside showing through.

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Pieris Napi

  

Animal Eyes | Pieris Napi | The underside hind wings are pale yellow with the veins highlighted by black scales giving a greenish tint, hence Green-veined White. The eggs are laid singularly on a wide range of foodplants including Hedge mustard Sisybrium officinale Garlic Mustard Alliaria petiolata, Cuckoo flower Cardamine pratense, Water-cress Rorippa nastutium-aquaticum, Charlock Sinapis arvensis, Large bitter-cress Cardamine amara, wild cabbage Brassica oleracea and wild Radish Raphanus raphanistrum and so it is rarely a pest in gardens. It is often found feeding on the same plant as the Orange Tip but never competes for food because it only feeds on the leaves whereas the Orange Tip caterpillar feeds on the flowers and developing seed pods.

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Common Mime

 

  

The Life of Animals | Common Mime | Forewing: a subterminal series of outwardly truncate or emarginate white spot; the spot in interspace 4 shifted inwards out of line; those in interspaces 6,7 and 8 oblique to the costa, the lowest and the upper two spots elongate; this is followed by a terminal series of smaller white spots, two in interspace 1, one above the outer, and two in interspaces 8; lastly, a single spot between the subterminal and terminal series. Hindwing: a discal series of inwardly conical and outwardly emarginate, triangular, elongate white spots; a prominent tornal yellow spot broadly divided across the middle by a bar of the ground colour.

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Pipevine Swallowtail

 

The Life of Animals | Pipevine Swallowtail | The Pipevine Swallowtail (Battus philenor) is a swallowtail butterfly found in North and Central America. The butterflies are black with iridescent blue hind wings. The black or red caterpillars feed on Aristolochia species, making them poisonous as both larvae and adults, while the adults feed on the nectar of a variety of flowers.

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Crimson Rose

  

The Life of Animals | Crimson Rose | Male Upperside black. Fore wing with a broad white interrupted band from the subcostal nervure opposite the origin of veins 10 and 11, extended obliquely to the tornus, and a second short pre-apical similar band; both bands composed of detached irregularly indented broad streaks in the interspaces. Hind wing with a diseal posteriorly strongly curved series of seven crimson spots followed by a subterminal series of crimson lunules.

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Blue Mormon

  

The Life of Animals | Blue Mormon | Males have the upper wings rich velvety black. The fore wing has a postdiscal band composed of internervular broad blue streaks gradually shortened and obsolescent anteriorly, not extended beyond interspace 6.

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Cairns Birdwing

 

  

The Life of Animals | Cairns Birdwing | A closely allied species, the New Guinea or Priam's Birdwing (Ornithoptera priamus) reaches 19 cm and is the largest butterfly species found in Australia, but it is not endemic.

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Scarce Swallowtail

  

The Life of Animals | Scarce Swallowtail | The Scarce Swallowtail (Iphiclides podalirius) is a Palearctic swallowtail butterfly found in gardens, fields and open woodlands. It is also Called Sail Swallowtail Swallowtail or Pear-tree. The Southern Swallowtail (Iphiclides feisthamelii), is Sometimes treated as a subspecies. The scarcity of UK migrants is Responsible for the Classic common name.

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Chequered skipper

The Life of Animals | chequered skipper | This one small animal that uses its wings to fly and also very beautiful is divided into miraculous kind, these animals are very beautiful views and we will always see it, usually the women who are very fond of the animal because of its beautiful color and shape is also a funny and also unique, want to know? The following report

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