Amanda Craig
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Butterflies & bugs, Shropshire based, photos my own..
Perfect weather for Holly Blue butterflies...🦋🦋
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Butterfly
#Bugs
#MyButterflyYear
8 months ago
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Amazing sunny weather for Easter today bringing out the butterflies 🦋🦋 Male Orange Tip posing well...
#Butterfly
#Bugs
#BlueSkyArtShow
#MyButterflyYear
#Shropshire
9 months ago
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First Painted Lady butterfly of the year...🦋🦋
#BugSky
#Insects
#Bugs
#Butterfly
#CanaryIslands
#MyButterflyYear
10 months ago
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Some cultures believe butterflies carry the souls of the departed, this one sat with me long enough to wonder...💚 🦋🦋 the hard to find endemic Gran Canaria Green-striped White...
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#BugSky
#CanaryIslands
#Insects
#Bugs
#MyButterflyYear
10 months ago
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My butterfly year is getting underway, starting with the bold colours of the Canary Red Admiral, Gran Canaria 🦋🦋
#butterfly
#naturelovers
#bugs
#insects
10 months ago
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John Martin
12 months ago
1 Jan NYPH walking from home around our usual-ish bit of Shrewsbury with
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@amanda-bug-girl.bsky.social
and Graham, to our surprise we got 44 species in flower easily beating last year's 26. Musk Stork's-bill, Spurge Laurel and the regular patch of Sweet Violet.
#wildflowerhour
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I present the Provence Hairstreak butterfly, my favourite butterfly find in Spain earlier in 2024... 🦋🦋 we weren't expecting to see it, and they can be difficult to find...made it a super encounter...
#Insects
#BugSky
#Butterfly
#MyButterflyYear
#Spain
about 1 year ago
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One of my top butterflies seen in 2024, Frigga's Fritillary. This one found in the bogs of northern Sweden, above the Arctic circle line, in June...🦋🦋
#Butterfly
#BugSky
#Insects
#Sweden
#Arctic
#MyButterflyYear
about 1 year ago
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So for
#MyButterflyYear
sharing favourite butterflies that I've seen during 2024.....Sweden in June the brilliant Cranberry Blue...🦋🦋..
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#Insects
#BugSky
#Sweden
about 1 year ago
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"Twas the night before...."...completing my tropical butterfly
#ArtAdventCalendar
on day 24 by sharing a Plain Tiger butterfly 🦋🦋 seen on route back to UK in
#SingaporeBotanicalGardens
#Singapore
#BugSky
#Insects
#Butterfly
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about 1 year ago
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For todays
#ArtAdventCalendar
the Large Green-banded Blue, loves the tropical rainforest, seen in Cairns Botanical Gardens
#AusInverts
#WildOz
#BugSky
#Insects
#Butterflies
about 1 year ago
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For today, the large striking Ulysses butterfly...🦋🦋...loves flitting through the Queensland rainforest and has amazing electric blue upper wings when it flies. Underside wings are more subdued...a magnificent butterfly...💚💚
#AusInverts
#WildOz
#Insects
#BugSky
#Butterflies
#ArtAdventCalendar
about 1 year ago
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For day 21 sharing a Small Dusky Blue butterfly, seen on the Queensland coast...🦋🦋
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#WildOz
#Insects
#BugSky
#Butterflies
#ArtAdventCalendar
about 1 year ago
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Lined Grass-yellow butterfly nectaring in tree near Mount Carbine, Queensland..🦋🦋
#AusInverts
#WildOz
#Insects
#BugSky
#Butterflies
#ArtAdventCalendar
about 1 year ago
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Day 19 of sharing butterflies from Australian tropics...a Silver Forget-me-not 🦋🦋 seen near Mount Molloy, Queensland...
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#WildOz
#Insects
#BugSky
#Butterflies
#ArtAdventCalendar
about 1 year ago
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Purple Moonbeam...🦋🦋 I love this name! A female laying eggs on the underside of a sandpaper fig, seen in Barron National Park, Queensland...
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#WildOz
#Insects
#BugSky
#Butterflies
#ArtAdventCalendar
about 1 year ago
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For Day 17...sharing a gorgeous little White Oak-Blue..🦋🦋 Seen in Cairns Botanical Gardens 🦋🦋
#AusInverts
#WildOz
#Insects
#BugSky
#Butterflies
#ArtAdventCalendar
about 1 year ago
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Sharing for today a Yellow-eyed Plane, mmm, I prefer it's alternative name... Black & White Aeroplane...loves the Queensland rainforest...🦋🦋
#AusInverts
#WildOz
#Insects
#BugSky
#Butterflies
#ArtAdventCalendar
about 1 year ago
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Black-spotted Flash...⚡...🦋🦋 photographed in Daintree, Queensland...🦋🦋
#AusInverts
#WildOz
#Insects
#BugSky
#Butterflies
#ArtAdventCalendar
about 1 year ago
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So for day 14 of
#ArtAdventCalendar
...a Greenish Pencil-Blue
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, seen at Barron Falls National Park, Queensland...🦋🦋
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#WildOz
#Insects
#BugSky
about 1 year ago
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Sharing for today a Common Eggfly butterfly sitting on Peace Lily in garden in Cairns, Queensland...🦋🦋
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#WildOz
#BugSky
#Insects
#Butterfly
#ArtAdventCalendar
about 1 year ago
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Zodiac Moth (or North Queensland Day Moth) flies during the day and is a really active feeder on flower nectar 🦋🦋 This one seen in Atherton, Queensland
#AusInverts
#WildOz
#Insects
#BugSky
#TeamMoth
#ArtAdventCalendar
about 1 year ago
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For today's
#ArtAdventCalendar
a Grey Albatross, also seen at Mount Hypipamee, Queensland. Far from grey, with brilliant flash of white when it flies..🦋🦋
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#WildOz
#Insects
#BugSky
#Butterflies
about 1 year ago
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For today a lovely Helena Brown (or Northern Sword-grass Brown), only found in tropical northern Queensland...🦋🦋 This one seen in Mount Hypipamee National Park
#AusInverts
#WildOz
#Insects
#BugSky
#Butterflies
#ArtAdventCalendar
about 1 year ago
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Sharing a Yellow-streaked Swift, a small butterfly found along tropical western coastline of Australia...this one enjoying sunny spot in a garden in Cairns...🦋🦋
#AusInverts
#WildOz
#Insects
#BugSky
#Butterflies
#ArtAdventCalendar
about 1 year ago
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For today we have the Black Jezebel....🦋🦋 another of the strikingly colourful Delia family of butterflies...🦋🦋
#AusInverts
#WildOz
#Insects
#BugSky
#Butterflies
#ArtAdventCalendar
about 1 year ago
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More bright colours on the Scarlet Jezebel butterfly seen in Atherton, Australia...🦋🦋
#AusInverts
#WildOz
#Insects
#BugSky
#Butterflies
#ArtAdventCalendar
about 1 year ago
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So the Delia group of butterflies of Australia are a real gem! Here is the first seen on our trip - the Yellow-banded Jezebel...🦋🦋
#AusInverts
#WildOz
#Insects
#Butterflies
#BugSky
#ArtAdventCalendar
about 1 year ago
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Orange Bush-Brown butterfly, feeding on a Ginger flower... 🦋🦋 This is a quite common butterfly in Queensland and parts of Asia
#AusInverts
#WildOz
#Insects
#BugSky
#Butterflies
#ArtAdventCalendar
about 1 year ago
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Sharing a Jezebel Nymph, loves the Australian Rainforest and perches quite high in the canopy...🦋🦋
#CairnsBotanicalGarden
#AusInverts
#WildOz
#Insects
#BugSky
#Butterflies
#ArtAdventCalendar
about 1 year ago
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Great Jay 🦋🦋 a pause in its busy frenetic flight!
#CairnsBotanicalGarden
#AusInverts
#WildOz
#Insects
#BugSky
#Butterflies
#ArtAdventCalendar
about 1 year ago
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For today, the Cairns Birdwing....🦋🦋 one of the largest butterflies in Australia... this male put on a great display at Barron Gorge National Park....
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#WildOz
#Insects
#BugSky
#Butterfly
#ArtAdventCalendar
about 1 year ago
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Extended this years butterfly season with a visit to Australian tropics...🦋🦋 Tailed Green-banded Line Blue...🦋🦋
#CairnsBotanicalGardens
#AusInverts
#WildOz
#BugSky
#Insects
#Butterflies
#ArtAdventCalendar
about 1 year ago
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Feels like an end of summer butterfly...🦋🦋 a Common Blue at Venus Pool this afternoon, hunkering down as the drizzle started...
#Butterfly
#Insect
over 1 year ago
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Brimstone butterfly on buddleia in our Shrewsbury garden yesterday, good to see at the end of summer..🦋🦋
#Butterfly
#Shropshire
#Insect
over 1 year ago
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My first posting...last days of summer and a lovely Brown Argus butterfly in the sunshine at Venus Pool reserve today, Shropshire..🦋🦋 💚💚
#InvertFest
#Butterfly
#Insects
over 1 year ago
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