Butterfly Pictures - and Nature Pictures

Nature pictures - bees & flowers
Nature pictures featuring a bee hovering milimetres away from a bright yellow sunflower as it selects where to alight for tasty nectar.
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Bee by Sunflower

Nature pictures - bees & flowers
Bee landing on a beautiful wild marsh orchid in full bloom. For just a short span of time the bees of the countryside can find tasty orchid nectar.
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Bee by Wild Orchid

Bees & butterflies.
Green-banded swallowtail butterfly (Papilio palinurus) with its beautiful metallic green markings contracting against the white flora.
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Green-banded swallowtail

Bees & butterflies.
Softly hued pink flora reflected in the subtle colours of a Postman butterfly, named after its habit of flying a route around all the nectar plants in a local area.
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Postman

Flying insects - butterflies.
Beautfiul pink pastel flowers amongst which a common mormon butterfly feeds from a vibrantly coloured pentas flower.
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Common Mormon

Bees & butterflies.
A Scarlet swallowtail (Papilio rumanzovia) reaches across to extract nectar from racemes of tropical orange flora.
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Scarlet Swallowtail

Rainforest butterflies.
A Tree Nymph butterfly spends hours gliding in gentle circles high up in the canopy before settling upon a flower from which to extract nectar.
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Tree Nymph

Rainforest butterflies.
A Hecales longwing butterfly perches on the edge of a russet toned rainforest leaf, forming a perfectly shaped pose.
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Shapely Wings

Nature pictures - flora and fauna.
A graceful ketch lies silhouetted against striking evening colours as a fiery sun sets dramatically positioned between her masts.
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White bluebells

Nature pictures - flora and fauna.
Pink lily reflected in the still waters of a lily pond, an insect enscounced within the delicately curving inner petals.
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Pink water-lily

Flying insects - butterflies.
A Clipper butterfly whose shades of tiger like markings blend perfectly with the dry gasses.
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Tiger in the Grass

British butterflies.
Gateway butterfly extracting nectar from softly coloured wild marjoram.
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Gatekeeper

Flying insects - moths.
The artistic brush strokes of an Elephant Hawk moth refleted in the flora behind. Brightly coloured stripes look as though they have been painted on.
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Elephant Hawk Moth

Flying insects - butterflies.
Zebra butterfly (Heliconius charithonia) perched atop a tropical Ixora flower displaying the red dashes of colour on the underside of its wings.
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Zebra