As spring melds into summer butterflies can be found wherever flowers are blooming. Thistle flowers attract a wide variety of insects including the beautiful fritillary butterflies.
I hesitate to attempt to identify these butterflies any further as their are quite a number of different fritillaries with very similar characteristics.
Two fritillaries share a flower
Blooms, and butterflies; what better way to spend a summer morning.
Canon 60D, Induro tripod, Kirk King Cobra head, Canon 600 F4 IS lens, and Kenko 25mm extension tube.
9 comments:
Delightful captures... hope this finds you well
WOW!!! and again WOW!!!! These are amazing shots and I love them.
Gorgeous shots. Here in Texas our thistles bloom in March and April. They are long gone by now!
Beautiful! Love the orange and pink together.
I always ID these as Great Spangled Fritillary - but I'm not positive that's what they are :)
Beautiful Pics Coy!!
Great images, Coy! You have a wonderful lens set-up for this type of photography.
So pretty. Great combination of colors. :)
Wonderful! How very obliging of them to pick a beautiful flower for posing for you.
I don't know my butterflies at all. These are gorgeous. Wonderful colors!
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