Butterflies & other insects Gallery

Sundew feeding on a Green Lacewing

Sundew (Drosera scorpioides) Carnivorous Ppant feeding on Green Lacewing (Chrysoperla carnea), Munich, Bavaria, Germany. the plant lures, captures, and digest insects using stalked mucilaginous glands covering their leaf surface

Angiosperm, Animal, Arthropod, Arthropoda, Carnivorous Plant Invertebrate, Critter, Ecoscene, Environment, Feeding, Insect, Jointed Leg, Minibeast

Monarch Butterfly, Danaus plexippus

Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus) - group feeding on yellow flower head, probably Milkweed sp. El Chincua Nature Reserve
Order Lepidoptera, Family Danaidae, feeds on milkweeds, Mexico overwintering site, migration, roosting site

Animal, Arthropod, Arthropoda, Critter, Ecoscene, Environment, High Speed Photographic Technique Insect, Invertebrate, Jointed Leg, Migration, Minibeast, Roosting Site

Southern Festoon, Zerynthia polyxena

Southern Festoon (Zerynthia polyxena) - in flight, high speed photographic technique, Europe wing Order Lepidoptera, Family Papilionidae, european, found in hot dry grassy places, Mediterranean species that can be found in small pockets as far north as Slovakia, colourful pattern

Animal, Arthropod, Arthropoda, Critter, Ecoscene, Environment Flight, Flight, Fly Insect, Flying, Flying Insect, Invertebrate, Jointed Leg, Minibeast, Motion, Movement, Open, Wing, Wings