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As forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours theguardian.com/environment/20…

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As forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours

The insects’ brilliant hues evolved in lush ecosystems to help them survive. Now they are becoming more muted to adapt to degraded landscapes – and they are not the only things dulling down
Phoebe Weston (The Guardian)
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Closeup of a butterfly with orange (tips) and blue (bottom) wings
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Monarch caterpilllars on swamp milkweed. Oleander aphids don't seem to bother them.
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Closeup of a monarch caterpillar on a milkweed stem
Several monarch caterpillars underneath leaves, surrounded by small orange aphids
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Closeup of a monarch butterfly. Dull orange hues.
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This monarch, a skipper, & some bumblebees were enjoying the zinnias Thursday. Seen monarchs around the garden nearly every day now. They seem to especially like the zinnias, the most abundant large flower in the garden right now.

#StormHour #butterflies #insects #nature #Photography #AltText

Photograph of a monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) standing atop a pink zinnia flower with out of focus flowers and green foliage in the foreground and in the background. The monarch is facing left in profile leaving only its left side visible and it has its proboscis inserted into one of the flower's orange-yellow florets. Monarch butterflies have orange wings with black and white patterned edges and black veining, black bodies and heads covered with white polka dots and fine black hairs, large black compound eyes, two long black antennae, and six black segmented legs.
#nature #Photography #alttext #insects #butterflies #stormhour

Pollinator Week is a great time to share this print, which expresses the central theme of my work about the Future of Pollination for Manufactured Ecosystems. Our food sources & ecosystems around us are dependent on pollinators (mostly bees & other insects, some birds & mammals) but insects populations have lost huge numbers and many species altogether.🧵

#PollinatorWeek #nativeBees #entomology #ecology #sciart #insects #butterflies #beetles #moths #printmaking #linocut #ManufacturedEcosystems

As described this 16” x 20” linocut print combines gold text in a central circle reading “OUR FATE” arching upwards, “IS TIED” horizontally across the middle, “TO THAT OF THE INSECTS” arching downwards in two lines with insects. Clockwise from top: two leaf cutter bees (Megachile relativa and M. brevis), the Imperial moth (Eacles imperialis), the Virgin Tiger moth (Apantesis virgo), an Isabella’s Longwings butterfly (Nymphalidae Eueides isabella), a blue orchard mason bee (Osmia lignaria), a firefly (Photinus pyralis), the rusty patched bumblebee (Bombus affinis), a white underwing moth (Catocala relicta), an eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica), a sweat bee (Agapostemon sericeus), a hummingbird clearwing moth (Hermaris thysbe), the common eastern bumblebee (B. impatiens), a long-horned bee (Melissodes sp.), a monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) and centre: eastern snail-shell nesting bee (O. conjuncta).
On an abstract background of teal and sand, black text on a white background reads, ‘Manufactured Ecosystems The Art and Science of Ecosystem Design’
#ecology #sciart #insects #entomology #beetles #printmaking #moths #butterflies #linocut #nativebees #pollinatorweek #manufacturedecosystems

If you plant it, they will come. Western tiger swallowtail butterfly on a Rocky Mountain bee plant. #pollinators #butterflies #NativePlants
A yellow butterfly with black stripes and edging and pointy tips on its wings is sipping nectar from a pink flower.
#pollinators #butterflies #nativeplants

Green Dragontails could be called the most exquisite and beautiful #butterflies alive. They are #vulnerable due to #palmoil and other #deforestation. Help them to survive and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife every time you shop! palmoildetectives.com/2024/01/… via @palmoildetectives

Green Dragontail Lamproptera meges

Green Dragontails could arguably be called the most exquisite and beautiful butterflies alive. They flutter through sunlit patches of leaves near to streams and rivers in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thail…
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Today it's 25C and humid. The butterflies are out in force, and it struck me that it looks like a white Christmas! I wanted to get a picture of a good flurry of them, but they weren't cooperating when I snapped my photos! The one photo looks good and captures some of them.
These are called Cabbage White butterflies.

#myphotos #mywork #butterflies

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It's been Monarch Mania around here lately! The most activity I have ever seen in the yard. Of course they're flocking to the meadow blazing stars (Liatris ligulistylis). #butterfly #butterflies #Lepidoptera #nativeplants #Illinois #nature #macro #photography #SaveTheMonarch
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