Butterfly Pictures

On this page, Butterfly Pictures, I have collected some of the most beautiful butterfly photography I could find.

Here you will find butterfly clipart of the Mission blue butterfly, with images of its larval and its egg, and you will find butterfly pics of other kinds of this delicate animal.

I hope you will enjoy these pictures, and find some you want to use.

I find that these butterfly photos are so great to use for greeting cards, for place cards, gift cards, invitations, letters.

They will also be good to use to catch the eye on your website, and on business cards.

Click the picture you like to go to the larger version in a new tab!

Butterfly Photos:

Butterfly	Peacock butterfly image
Butterfly images	Butterfly photos
Speyeria Calippe butterfly	Regal Frittilary
Butterfly photo	Butterfly photos
Icaricia	Cercyonis-pegala
Butterfly on yellow flowers	Beautiful Swallowtail butterfly photo
Orange Papillon	Butterfly on red flower

The Difference between Butterflies and Moth:

I have never really understood the difference between butterflies and moth, thought the biggest difference was that the moth is a night creature, while the butterfly is a day creature.
Making this page with butterfly images made me read about it, and it seems it is not at all as simple as that.

While it is true that most species of moth are nocturnal, the best way to distinguish between the two kinds of Lepidoptera is to take a look at their antennae.

Almost all butterflies have thin antennae which end in small clubs or balls.
Moth antennae can look very different from each other, but almost all of them lack the club in the end of the antenna.

Nice to know, isn't it?

About using my material:

If you want to use any of these beautiful butterfly photos, please go to Homepage to read about the rules for using my material.

The rules are actually quite simple, so there shouldn't be any problems, I hope.

 

More Butterfly Pictures:

 

Monarch butterflies	Butterfly photos
Monarch butterfly migration	Glaucopsyche blue butterfly
Moth images	Moth photo
Callosamia angulifera	moth Cecropia-moth
Butterfly on flower images	Butterfly on flower photo
Delaware-Skipper butterfly	Euphydryas-editha-bayensis
Butterfly photos	Butterfly images
Boloria-frigga	Male Mission blue butterfly
Butterfly photo	Butterfly photo
Female Mission blue butterfly	Saturium Edvardsii butterfly
Butterfly image	Butterfly on flower
Glaucopsyche lygdamus	Glaucopsyche lygdamus palosverdesensis
Purple butterfly photography	Blue/green forest butterfly
Red Admiral butterfly	Red Admiral butterfly pics
Black Swallowtail butterfly	Butterfly looking like a leaf

I hope that you will also visit some of the other pages on this site with great pictures of animals.

 

If you like, please go to the main page Pictures of Animals, where you will find an overview of all the pages with animal pictures.

See below on this page the other pages here on Clipartqueen related to this one.

 

Even more Butterfly Pictures:

 

Butterfly image	Butterfly photos
Swallowtail and bumblebee	Mission blue larva
Butterfly photos	Butterfly photography
Taylors-checkerspot	Swallowtails
Butterfly images	Butterfly photo
Metalmark-butterfly-Apodemia	Pawnwee Montane skipper
Moth	Big blue motyl/butterfly
Morpho butterfly	Lycorea Cleobaea

You can use all these beautiful butterfly pics for all kinds of crafts:

For scrapbooking, making place cards, gift cards.
You can also make some very nice invitations and greetings.

I have made a oval clipart out of one of the butterfly images to show you one of the many ways you can use them.

            

A Few Facts About the Butterfly:

What the butterfly eats:

Butterflies consume only liquids, which they ingest through their proboscis.
This is actually the first maxillae elongated into a tube.
The butterfly has the proboscis curled up when at rest, and it expands when the butterfly needs to feed.

The butterflies feed only through this proboscis, and only liquids like water damp patches and nectar from flowers.
Sometimes they need more salt and minerals than they get from nectar, and they obtain these important nutrients by getting them from rotting fruit, carcasses and dong.

You often find butterflies attracted to landing on humans because of the salt in the sweat.

The Life Cycle of the Butterfly:

The butterflies start out as eggs, most often glued to leaves of a plant, and each species of butterflies has one plant or several plants in the same family they prefer for their eggs.

Most eggs are hatched after a couple of weeks, only few species have their eggs hatched after a season.

Next stage for the butterfly is the caterpillar, they are hatched from the eggs.
It might look as if the caterpillar stays the same until it makes a pupa, but actually it goes through several stages.
At the end of each stage it moults the old skin splits, and the new skin (culticle) breaks through.

Finally the caterpillar larve stops eating, and starts looking for a suitable place to start to make the pupa, often on the underside of a leaf.
While inside the pupa, most of the cells of the larva are broken down, and the material is used to the butterfly.

After this transformation has taken place, the pupa spits, and the adult butterfly comes out.

Read more about this here on Wikipedia.

Butterfly Photos:

Butterfly clipart	Butterfly photos
Mission blue butterfly egg	Mission blue butterfly
Butterfly pics	Butterfly pics
Male Mission blue butterfly	Oregon Silverspot
Butterfly photos	Butterfly images
Mission blue on flower	Karner blue butterfly
Black white red butterfly	Orange butterfly
White butterfly	Fritillary butterfly picture

      

 

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