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Männlicher Kaisermantel auf gewöhnlichem Wasserdost.

Silver-washed fritillary
Ein orangener Schmetterling mit braunen Flecken und Streifen auf einem lila Blütenstand.
December 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
mariposanature.bsky.social
We thought it would be fun to do a countdown to #Christmas - twelve seasonal songs with a wildlife twist!

Starting this evening with Jingle Bells, sung by Sinatra because, frankly, the golden bells of Rhodes Fritillary deserve none other.

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Rhodes Fritillary (Fritillaria rhodia), Rhodes © Jon Dunn
December 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
grays.art
Best of 2025 count down: #20

Caribbean Gulf fritillary butterfly
(Dione vanillae ssp. insularis)

Tuesday afternoon in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, in a vacant lot 1-14-25

#pollinators #nature #bugsky #naturalist #butterflies #eastcoastkin #insects #bugs #macro #photography #flyday #puertoRico 🇵🇷
Orange white black and tan butterfly resting on index finger
December 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
greenwingstours.bsky.social
For today (& yesterday that we missed) here's some mud-puddling Black-veined Whites on our Croatia tour by Mike L & a Cardinal Fritillary flight sequence in Serbia by Gillian E.

2 more 2025 tours which generated funds for us to donate to @europebutterfly.bsky.social

#AdventCalendar
December 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
dunnjons.bsky.social
One of my highlights of this past year was a return to Hungary, 30 years after I first visited the country.

Back then, my focus was marketing beer (this was work, honestly!) - on this occasion, I was looking for butterflies for @mariposanature.bsky.social:

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Pallas's Fritillary (Argynnis laodice) © Jon Dunn Lesser Clouded Yellow (Colias chrysotheme) © Jon Dunn Dryad (Minois dryas) © Jon Dunn
December 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
thesouloftheearth.bsky.social
@scottzona.bsky.social got me thinking about fraseras this morning. This is the only one I've seen, roadside in northern California, being visited by a fritillary friend. I had to take the photos thru a chain link fence.

#ArtAdventCalendar #nativeplants #flowers #flowerphotography #California 🌿
White stem frasera (Frasera albicaulis) has a green stem and pale blue four-petalled flowers with a central stripe of darker blue. Since there are both yellow and pink stamens, I assume they turn pink after pollination to let pollinators know not to bother. This cluster is being visited by an orange and black fritillary butterfly with white spots on its underwing.
December 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
mariposanature.bsky.social
Good morning and welcome to a new week!

This week's featured tour is Pallas's Fritillary & Late Summer Butterflies of Hungary. The glorious Pallas's may be the star of the show, but the supporting cast is every bit as impressive too... (1/2)

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Pallas's Fritillary (Argynnis laodice) © János Oláh
December 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
mariposanature.bsky.social
Some highly sought-after species are possible, including four(!) Phengaris large blue sp, and eastern specialities like Lesser Clouded Yellow and Assman's Fritillary. A guaranteed departure, naturally the tour generates a donation to support our friends at @europebutterfly.bsky.social. (2/2)
Assman's Fritillary (Melitaea britomartis) © János Oláh Mountain Small White (Pieris ergane) © János Oláh Lesser Clouded Yellow (Colias chrysotheme) © János Oláh Meleager's Blue (Polyommatus daphnis) © János Oláh
December 8, 2025 at 8:03 AM
chrisvanswaay.bsky.social
The slow expansion of the Marbled Fritillary (braamparelmoer, Brenthis daphne) in NL has surprised me, in B and D it easily moves 10-20km per year. Even in de SE the density is still relatively low. Apparently the quality of the habitat in NL is not good enough to move further north.
December 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
sciencebase.com
Worst weather for wildlife photography, windy, dull, and very wet, and while there may be hundreds of Whooper Swans #UKBIrding locally, I'm going to stay dry and decorate the Xmas tree instead

Also, lit up briefly last night #teamMoth 1x LBAM #NoWogan

I've got Xmas songs to arrange too for a gig
Saw our first Heath Fritillary at Blean Wood. Nectaring way back in June
December 9, 2025 at 9:34 AM
kevin.wertman.org
Good morning! Here's a beautiful pair of gulf fritillary butterflies for #stunday

#photography #coloraday #orangesun #butterfiles
Two bright orange butterflies with black and white markings on their wings sit on the same pink furry flower. Background is mostly blurred greens and browns.
December 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM
melissamactn.bsky.social
For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 5, here is a gorgeous Freija's fritillary seen this summer on the @mariposanature.bsky.social trip to the European Arctic. This butterfly was much admired, then much rained on, then relocated and adored once more.
A burnt-orange, white, and black patterned butterfly perches on a purple plant
December 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
juliejam.bsky.social
This year, I have (mostly unintentionally) practiced the Underpants Gnomes Theory of wildlife gardening:
Step 1: Acquire native plants
Step 2: ?
Step 3: Profit!*
But seriously, it works. (Photos from August 26.) #nativeplants #insects #underpantsgnomes
*Profit = bugs. A collage of 14 insects, because that is all that will fit on one collage: Gray Hairstreak butterfly, American Bumblebee, American Lady butterfly, Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly, Tiger Swallowtail butterfly, Monarch butterfly, Snowberry Clearwing moth, Silver-spotted Skipper, Northern Plushback Fly, Honeybee, Yellow-collared Scape Moth, Pearl Crescent butterfly, Gulf Fritillary butterfly, Bush Cicada. August 26, 2025, Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.
December 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
matthewherron.bsky.social
Gulf fritillary, Savannah National Wildlife Refuge, South Carolina
#insects #wildlifephotography
December 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
mramsdell1967.bsky.social
Aphrodite fritillary (Speyeria aphrodite)
Butterfly 2021-25

Good feels guilt
for the hurt and problems caused to others
Evil feels guilt
for getting caught and the harm to themselves

#butterfly #butterflies #macro #pics #photography #beauty #nature #photodaily #photos #thephotohour #mramsdellpics
December 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
mramsdell1967.bsky.social
Aphrodite fritillary (Speyeria aphrodite)
Butterfly 2020-62

Injustice is irrelevant for some until it effects that person
Then they often wonder why nobody else cares

#butterfly #butterflies #macro #pics #photography #beauty #nature #photodaily #photos #thephotohour #mramsdellpics
December 3, 2025 at 12:05 PM
lhaktong.bsky.social
If you are looking for the talus fritillary, they are not easy to find! I only saw them because I was on a Jepson workshop there and we were led to them.
December 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
earlgreygory.bsky.social
It's December and I am happy to announce a new show this month at Dosie Dough, in Lititz, PA. Stop in for some art and delicious baked treats!

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#artsky #lancaster #bugsky #sciart
A gouache painting of a dead variegated fritillary butterfly, with tattered wings on a deep purple background. The butterfly has orange, white and light brown wings with 4 prominent dark spots.
December 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
grays.art
Gulf Fritillary butterfly
(Dione vanillae)

verse for #ImageAndVerse in response below

#StunDay #ColorADay #OrangeSun #bugsky #native #butterflies #Lepidoptera #insects #bugs #pollinators #macro #photography #macroPhotography
Medium-sized butterfly with a bright orange body and wings that are open, the top of the wings have black markings and three white spots ringed in black along the leading edge.
November 30, 2025 at 7:58 AM
butterflyguy99.bsky.social
Butterfly Season 2025

Wide shot of a beautiful Great Spangled Fritillary butterfly. Our upper meadow is in the background.

#Photography99 📷🌱 #Butterflies 🦋
November 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
s4r4h-l.bsky.social
#FlutterbyFriday with a stunning small pearl bordered fritillary underwing from 6 months ago in #Lancashire. Such an attractive #butterfly. @savebutterflies.bsky.social #vitaminN
Very pretty underwing on small pearl bordered fritillary seen this year, happily feeding on bell heather
November 28, 2025 at 7:30 AM
lycomorpha.bsky.social
We interrupt this fritillary broadcast with me being incredibly predictable.

[Intermission music]
Glass fronted display boxes filled with beetles and moth, part of a museum entomology collection. The insects are of various sizes and colours, pinned in rows. Part of the digitisation display, Museum Für Naturkunder, Berlin.
November 28, 2025 at 1:26 PM
lycomorpha.bsky.social
(& Just in case, that last final image has an OOD link on it. I don't have a Patreon anymore.)

This is the only wild fritillary that grows near me, the classic snakes head fritillary.
A colour pencil and watercolour drawing of a single pi k and purple checkered snakes head fritillary flower, on a slender stem, with three thin, long, deep green leaves. It looks tidy. So I think we know what the sketches are gonna look like. A slightly messy sketchbook page of sketches for the snakes head fritillary. There's 3 flowers on stems with varying degrees of colour put on. There's also one close up sketch on a six petalled flower, trying to work out how to draw the checkered pattern. More sketchbook mayhem with me trying to figure out how to draw the checkered flowers. Lots of scrawled illegible notes, test patches of colour, & unfinished petals. Ack.
November 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
lycomorpha.bsky.social
Fritillaries sketch vs final.

1. Fritillaria amana (used to be F. hermonis subsp. amana)
A sketchbook page showing fritillary plant drawings. There's 2 particularly coloured drawings of F.amana which has large bell shaped flowers on thin stems with thin strap like leaves. A finished sketch is taped to the page. There's test blobs of colour dotted about the place. The finished detailed drawing of the previously described fritillaria, with red and green petals, a pale green stem and dark green leaves. It looks very tidy compared to the sketchbook.
November 28, 2025 at 9:54 AM
lycomorpha.bsky.social
My first fritillary was F. caucasica. This drawing of it is also from the specimen pic at fritillaria icones. Still love the grey-blue bloom on the petals.
A colour pencil drawing of a fritillary with one large bell shaped flower that has 6 dark burgundy petals with a greyish bloom. They're held on a thin light green stem, with glaucous very large oval leaves. leaves. It's very tidy. You know the drill by now. A simplified ink and watercolour sketch of the same fritillary specimen. It's remarkably tidy for a sketch, but there are still scrawled illegible notes and patches of colour about the place. A first attempt at sketching the same fritillary in pencil and watercolour. There's a blue post-it note stuck to the sketchbook page with details of the colours and shading used, so I can remember what worked when I was drawing it. It's too small for me to read in this scan tho.
November 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM