Aspfjäril - Limenitis populi - Poplar admiral

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Aspfjäril - Limenitis populi - Poplar admiral 

NF Photo 140702, Hagsätter

Om Aspfjäril på NR
About Poplar admiral on wiki
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Pärlgräsfjäril - Coenonympha arcania - Pearly Heath

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© NF Photo 110630

© NF Photo 140626

© NF Photo 140705

Pärlgräsfjäril - Coenonympha arcania - Pearly Heath

Normally you never see the upper part of the wing. The Pearly Heath always move the wings together when it sits on a plant. I hae been lucky twice and managed to get flying shots of it.
 

Today I noted something I have never seen before. It was windy and if you look carefully on the last image the butterfly has folded both wings to the side avoiding the wind by laying the wings close to the leaf.

This butterfly is damaged on the upper wing so the little dark red area is the lower wing.

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Aurora- Antocharis cardamines - Orange Tip

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 Female above

Aurora- Antocharis cardamines - Orange Tip

NF Photo 140517 -18

Despite the long spring we had, this butterfly was late. I only saw it now. Maybe because there was lots of cold nights and, lately, rainy days. But now they are flying. I found the female yesterday and the beautiful male today.

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Cabbage White and Comma

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The Large White (Pieris brassicae), also called Cabbage Butterfly, Cabbage White, Rapsfjäril - Pieris napi - Green-veined White
lol, a butterfly with lots of names. :)

 Vinbärsfuks - Polygonia c-album - Comma 

NF Photo 140425, Carl Ugglas park

It is a good feeling to see them flying again. Really nice.

Saturdays Critters
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The first ones to awake this spring

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Nässelfjäril - Small Tortoiseshell  and    Citronfjäril - Brimstone
NF Photo 140312

The first ones to awake this spring. So nice to see them.

Saturdays Critters 15
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Costa Rican butterfly with pearly lustre

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NF Photo 110130, in Costa Rica

We was visiting a park in CostaRica and I had to go to the bathroom. On the floor this beautiful  butterfly stayed. Looking at the image I see it has patches similar to "mother-of -pearl" Catching the light in an iridescent way.

NF Winged 113

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Costa Rican butterfly

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NF Photo 110211, Copal, Costa Rica

This is a butterfly I captured during my stay in Copal, Costa Rica in jan-feb 2011. Of course I don´t know what species it is. But I thought we all need something beautiful to look at.

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