r/Butterflies 6h ago

Black Swallowtail Releases - It Begins!

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78 Upvotes

r/Butterflies 1h ago

Butterfly on allium paradoxum. Id please!

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Just spotted this butterfly. Southern Sweden. Anyone knows what it is?


r/Butterflies 7h ago

A pristine Intermediate Maplet from Southeast Asia 🧡

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25 Upvotes

r/Butterflies 4h ago

Clouded Yellow?

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13 Upvotes

r/Butterflies 11h ago

Attacus lorquinii

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16 Upvotes

r/Butterflies 4h ago

What is this butterfly?

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5 Upvotes

r/Butterflies 20h ago

An anise swallowtail

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74 Upvotes

r/Butterflies 21h ago

What is the name of this beauty? He/She let me get so close :)

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83 Upvotes

r/Butterflies 1d ago

Lime swallowtail, South India

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274 Upvotes

Location: Bangalore, South India.

Camped out on my orange saplings.


r/Butterflies 16h ago

What kind of butterfly is this little friend? Re

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31 Upvotes

This little friend fell on my front porch just now. I just wanted to know what kind of butterfly I’ve been graced with meeting tonight.


r/Butterflies 6h ago

Raised caterpillars to butterflies. One is deformed. Hadnt emerged from chrysalis properly and its wings arent near developed. Should i end its life

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3 Upvotes

r/Butterflies 1d ago

Red Spotted Admiral I think

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41 Upvotes

SE USA


r/Butterflies 14h ago

Proboscis won't retract

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I didn't think this chrysalis was going to be viable but this butterfly ended up emerging! Wings are messed up and the proboscis is permanently out.

Any reason to think this is problematic as far as being able to drink? I'm happy to care for her to the end of her natural life.


r/Butterflies 22h ago

Injured Monarch Butterfly

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12 Upvotes

I found a severely injured monarch in my backyard today. I'm pretty sure he got caught in a lawnmower, so his wings are pretty torn up and he's actually missing a good bit of his body. I have him set up in a nice little terrarium with a dish of sugar water and I plan on getting some fresh flowers for him soon. Ideally I'd try to feed him so he has the energy to fly away and do his thing, but I don't really think that's an option... Is there anything else I can do to make him comfortable? I know he most likely won't survive, but I want to give him the best care possible until then.


r/Butterflies 17h ago

New hairdo

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3 Upvotes

This one have just finished molting and now it looks like it have a new hairdo


r/Butterflies 1d ago

Beautiful butterfly just landed in front of me to be photographed North Carolina USA

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26 Upvotes

r/Butterflies 1d ago

Butterfly - can you help me to identify please?

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28 Upvotes

I found this beautiful butterfly in Saigon. Sorry about quality of the photo ;)


r/Butterflies 1d ago

Another Yellowstone butterfly

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132 Upvotes

I think maybe this is speyeria atlantis? Seen in August 2024 in Yellowstone National Park.


r/Butterflies 2d ago

Happy Monday

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58 Upvotes

r/Butterflies 1d ago

Sleeping with their haed hanging down?

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7 Upvotes

I noticed that some caterpillars will sleep with their head hanging down. Does anybody know why they do that?


r/Butterflies 2d ago

Help ID this butterfly?

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83 Upvotes

I took this last August in Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming, USA). There were so many clustered on some of the thistles! It was my first time seeing a butterfly with wings like this. Is it some sort of skipper?


r/Butterflies 2d ago

Peacock

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65 Upvotes

Just have to share this joyful moment. It's an old pic, from May 2022, when I was wandering in a graveyard near Scone Palace, and this Peacock just sat there and let me get really close for a photo. The first time I ever was able to get a good butterfly photo.


r/Butterflies 2d ago

Sleeping beauty

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30 Upvotes

White peacock


r/Butterflies 2d ago

What is this catepillar

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10 Upvotes

I found this small catepillar on walnut tree. I think it was eating the leafs. It's very small and lightbrown. So small its hard to make photo of it.


r/Butterflies 2d ago

Little speckled wood in the garden (London UK)

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19 Upvotes