#fritillary

[femmekinkajou]

another day another dollar

[geopsych]

Snake’s head fritillary! I’ve seen these for years in posts by friends in the UK but had never seen one in person so I bought some bulbs last autumn. Charming little checkered bells.

[herpsandbirds]

Freyer's Fritillary (Melitaea arduinna), family Nymphalidae, Turkey

photograph by Kurtuluş Şimşek

[vintagewildlife]

Glanville fritillary caterpillar (Melitaea cinxia) By: Unknown photographer From: Wildlife Fact-File 1990s

[histsciart]

Wingsday Fritillaries & Red Feather Clover

Niobe fritillaries (Fabriciana niobe) on red feather clover (Trifolium rubens) illustrated by Paul-André Robert for his Les Papillons dans la Nature (1934).

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[marauderfan]

just a few of the many butterflies from cennet cehennem *(paradise)

[julianplum]

🌷 🖤 🏁 🌿 🐛 🐌 ✨ // still life with fritillaries & hellebores // gouache on hot press paper

A gift painted for a friend for their help with top surgery stuff! fritillaries are wild; they're actually checkered that way in nature, and hellebores really do come in black.

[onenicebugperday]

A lovely Speyeria(?) species sipping on lavender in Western Montana. Looking a bit tattery, but still very active and seemed to be getting around just fine!

Yes, looks like one of the fritillaries! Don't ask me which one, they all look the same to me. Love this friend, though. Butterflies and moths can fly with a truly shocking amount of damage to their wings.