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Butterfly

nobody@ipernity.com (JanS Photography) — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:23:24 +0000

The beauty that is a Red Admiral butterfly.

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nobody@ipernity.com (Andrew Trundlewagon) — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:17:53 +0000

A peacock butterfly. Although common in Europe this is very unusual in Canada. They arrived in the Montreal area in 1997, probably carried across the Atlantic on a container ship, and have slowly gained a foothold. The caterpillars eat nettles, another immigrant species that has flourished in its new home, and clearly the species can survive the harsh winters.

SunflowerButterflyBee03

nobody@ipernity.com (Troy Patterson) — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:33:11 +0000

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nobody@ipernity.com (Troy Patterson) — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:33:10 +0000

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Butterfly Dream

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Sutherland) — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:43:53 +0000

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Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly at the New York Botanical Garden (Bronx, New York)—July 24, 2026. A texture was used to create the final image.

Suspended between blossom and light, an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly emerges from a landscape softened by haze, texture, and memory. Its wings remain briefly visible as the surrounding garden dissolves into luminous silence. The image invites the viewer into the fleeting moment between presence and disappearance.

Speckled Wood

nobody@ipernity.com (JanS Photography) — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:14:08 +0000

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Red Admiral

nobody@ipernity.com (JanS Photography) — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:13:03 +0000

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Painted Lady

nobody@ipernity.com (JanS Photography) — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:14:34 +0000

JanS Photography has posted:

The painted lady is a migrant to the UK from North Africa, the Middle East and southern Europe during the summer; sometimes it arrives here in enormous numbers. A frequent visitor to gardens, it will feed on Buddleia and other flowers. The caterpillars feed on thistles, mallows and Viper's-bugloss, as well as various cultivated plants. This species cannot survive our winter in any form

Sie leuchten wieder ✨️

nobody@ipernity.com (Brigitte ✨️) — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:45:24 +0000

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Ich liebe die Prachtwinde ❤

Der Mond leuchtet heute auch schön.

✨️Gute Nacht ✨️

What a wonderful world ❤ ❤ ❤

nobody@ipernity.com (Brigitte ✨️) — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:18:06 +0000

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The Brimstone

nobody@ipernity.com (TOZ) — Tue, 05 May 2026 07:48:31 +0000

TOZ has posted:

The Brimstone butterfly is one of the earliest butterflies to appear each spring in the UK, often seen on warm days as early as February. Its vivid lemon-yellow wings in males (paler greenish-white in females) make it a likely inspiration for the word "butter-fly".

a small blue butterfly

nobody@ipernity.com (Brigitte ✨️) — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:07:07 +0000

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... lädt ein zum Träumen ❤

Adonis Blue Butterfly

nobody@ipernity.com (TOZ) — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:15:50 +0000

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The Adonis blue is the rarest of the blue butterflies in the UK. It is found on sunny, south-facing grassland that is rich in herbs. It doesn't travel far, so colonies can become isolated and vulnerable to extinction if their habitat is disturbed.

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nobody@ipernity.com (Andrew Trundlewagon) — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 01:10:00 +0000

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From the Botanic Gardens, Hong Kong. Probably a Ceylon blue glassy tiger.

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nobody@ipernity.com (Andrew Trundlewagon) — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 23:19:59 +0000

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Butterflies feeding, Hong Kong Botanical gardens.

Monarch Butterfly

nobody@ipernity.com (John Cook) — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 10:22:55 +0000

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At Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife

Peacock

nobody@ipernity.com (TOZ) — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 08:00:53 +0000

TOZ has posted:

Aglais io, the European peacock, or the peacock butterfly, is a colourful butterfly, found in Europe and temperate Asia as far east as Japan. The peacock butterfly is resident in much of its range, often wintering in buildings or trees. It therefore often appears quite early in spring.

A Butterfly triptych

nobody@ipernity.com (John Cook) — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 11:17:40 +0000

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In the grounds of Ripley Castle, a 14th-century country house in Ripley, North Yorkshire, England, 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Harrogate
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripley_Castle
www.ripleycastle.co.uk

Monarch

nobody@ipernity.com (Dinesh) — Sat, 20 Jul 2013 10:41:13 +0000

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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

~Rabindranath Tagore

Farfalla

nobody@ipernity.com (Dinesh) — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 19:08:01 +0000

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And phonesthesia gives rise to a lovely puzzle for comparative linguistics: why languages seldom share a root for their word for butterfly. In Western Europe for example, we fine ‘schmetterling’ in German, ‘vlinder’ in Dutch, ‘somerfugl; in Danish ‘papillion’ in French, ‘mariposa’ in Spanish, ‘farfalla’ in Italian, and ‘borboleta’ in Portuguese. The puzzle is that with just about every other kind of word, these languages share roots promiscuously. The words for cat, for example are ‘Katze,’ ‘Kat,’ ‘kat,’ ‘chat,’ ‘gato,’ ‘gatto,’ and ‘gato’. A clue may be found in the fact that while the exact word for butterfly in may languages is proprietary, it often has a reduplicated sound, most often b, p, l, or f, as in Hebrew ‘parpar,’ Italian ‘farfalla,’ and Papuan fefe-fefe’. It’s as if the words are supposed to act out the fluttering of the wings! Not all the names are phonesthetic; we also find allusions to the butterfly’s properties, real or mythical. In English it’s a fly with the color of butter, or that consumes butter, or whose droppings look like butter (the folk etymology that identified butterfly as a spoonerism for ‘flutter-by’ is appealing but untrue. Why the reluctance to share these metaphors and allusions? No one knows, but I am fond of the speculation by the linguist Haj Ross:

‘The concept/image of butterfly is uniquely powerful one in the group minds of the world’s cultures, with its somewhat unpromising start as a caterpillar followed by its dazzling finish of visual symmetry, coupled with the motional unforgettability of the butterfly’s flipzagging path through our consciousness. Butterflies are such perfect symbols of transformation that almost no culture is content to accept another’s poetry for this mythic creature. Each language finds its own verbal beauty to celebrate the stunning salience of the butterfly’s being.” ~ Page 303 (“The Stuff of Thought” ~ Steven Pinker)