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Boloria selene
Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary gathering nectar of a Wood Scabious flower in a wet meadow.
Zyagena loti
Slender Burnets mating on a grass in an alpine meadow. The female has her wings lighter than the male.
Scarce Swallowtail (Iphiclides podalirius)
Scarce Swallowtail landed on the edge of a small path. Limousin, France.
Scarce Swallowtail (Iphiclides podalirius)
Scarce Swallowtail gathering nectar of white clover flower in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.
Scarce Swallowtail (Iphiclides podalirius)
Swallowtail gathering nectar of Lavender flowers . Drôme, France.
Scarce Swallowtail (Iphiclides podalirius)
Scarce Swallowtail resting on a flower of Arabian pea. Drôme, France.
Papilio machaon
Common Yellow Swallowtail resting on a grass in a calcareous grassland. Limousin, France.
Papilio machaon
Male swallowtail resting on a rock at the summit of an residual hill where males of various species of butterflies are competing for the best places in the sun. This swallowtail is the winner of the competition of the day, he's the king of the hill. Limousin, France.
Papilio machaon
Male swallowtail resting on a small burnet at the summit of an residual hill where males of various species of butterflies are competing for the best places in the sun. Limousin, France.
Papilio machaon
Common Yellow Swallowtail resting on a grass in a calcareous grassland. Limousin, France.
Papilio machaon
Common Yellow Swallowtail gathering nectar of a Wood Scabious (Knautia maxima) flower in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.
Papilio machaon
Swallowtail sitting on a spruce just after metamorphosis. We can also see the remains of the chrysalis of his neck. Vercors, France.
Satyrium spini
Blue Spot Hairstreak gathering nectar of White Stonecrop flowers. Col de Lachau, Vercors, France.
Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus)
Common blue male enjoying the last rays of sunlight of a late afternoon in a calcareous meadow.
Polyommatus icarus
Common blue male exposing its wings in the sun, resting on a dewy apple mint in a wet meadow.
Empusa pennata
Nymph of Conehead mantis male resting on a shrub in dry calcareous hillside. Limousin, France.
Polyommatus escheri
Escher's Blue female gathering nectar of a Blue Aphyllanthes flower in a wasteland. Diois, France.
Polyommatus escheri
Escher's Blue female gathering nectar of a Blue Aphyllanthes flower in a wasteland. Diois, France.
Parnassius apollo
Apollo Butterflies mating on spiked speedwell in an alpine meadow. Vercors, France.
Parnassius apollo
Apollo female foraging a flower of atuberous thistle in a small alpine meadow. Vercors, France.
Parnassius apollo
Apollo female foraging a flower of a tuberous thistle in an alpine meadow. Vercors, France.
Lysandra bellargus
This Adonis Blue male is not like the other members of its species. It lacks a series of dots on the forewing and hindwing.
Lysandra bellargus
Adonis Blue paire mating, female on left, male on right, upon a rock on a steep hillside.
