Markings Collection (#33)

Marbled Fritillary Butterfly
Marbled Fritillary butterfly (Brenthis daphne). A Mediterranean species, showing the clouded purple coloration on the underwings

Bug Orchid (Orchis coriophora) flowers. This orchid species has a sickly scent, said to be like squashed bed bugs, the origin of its common name

Emperor Moth larva (Saturnia pavonina) beginning to spin a cocoon before pupating

Spotted Fritillary Butterfly (Melitaea didyma)

Iris Braithwaite
Flowers of Iris Braithwaite

Bee Orchid (Ophrys apifera) flowers that have evolved to look like a female bee sitting on a flower. The intention is to achieve pollination by fooling the male bee into attempting to mate with

Marbled White Butterfly
Marbled White (Melanargia galathera) butterfly resting on Wild Marjoram flowers in the UK

Dull Ophrys (Ophrys fusca), a small flowered Mediterranean species

Female Silver-washed Fritillary Butterfly
Female Silver-washed Fritillary (Argynnis paphia) feeding on the nectar from Bramble flowers. This female is showing the unusual valezina colour form

Marbles Fritillary Butterfly
Marbles Fritillary butterfly (Brenthis daphne) with its proboscis partly unfurled

Mallow Skipper Butterfly
Mallow Skipper butterfly (Carcharodus alceae), feeding on lavender nectar. This species can only be identified with certainty from their genitalia

Ploughshare Orchid (Serapias vomeracea) flower. A widespread species in southern Europe and the Mediterranean region that takes its Latin

Knapweed Fritillary Butterfly
Knapweed Fritillary butterfly (Melitaea phoebe)

Common Swallowtail Butterfly
Common Swallowtail butterfly newly emerged from a chrysalis (Papilio machaon)

An Adult Meadow Pipit
Adult Meadow Pipit (Anthus pratensis) perched on a Juniper bush (Juniperus communis) with an insect in its beak

Emperor Moth Caterpillar
A Emperor Moth caterpillar (Saturnia pavonia). These caterpillars live communally early in their lives then later they moult, become green, much larger and live singly

Male Silver-washed Fritillary Butterfly
Male Silver-washed Fritillary (Argynnis paphia) feeding on the nectar from Bramble flowers. It is the largest UK Fritillary and is found in broadleaved woodlands in southern England, Wales and Ireland

Seven-spot ladybirds mating
Seven-spot ladybirds (Coccinella septempunctata) mating

Iris All that Jazz
A single flower of Iris All that Jazz

A male Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) on farmland

Lackey Moth Caterpillar laying eggs
Lackey Moth caterpillar (Malacosoma neustria) laying eggs in the autumn. These are ready to hatch the following spring and live in a communal nest spun over foliage

Iris Susan Bliss
A single flower of Iris Susan Bliss

Gourd growing on a vine

Flying gurnard displaying. Flying gurnards (Dactyloptena orientalis) use finger-like extensions on their pectoral fins to crawl across the sea floor

Bobtail squid on the seabed
Bobtail squid (order Sepiolida) on the seabed. Like all squid, bobtail squid have small sacs of pigment beneath the surface of the skin called chromatophores

Breynia disticha Roseopicta
Snow Bush (Breynia disticha Roseopicta )

Lily (Lilium Scherazade ) flower in the Summer

Tomares nesimachus butterfly feeding
Tomares nesimachus butterfly perched on a flower spike and feeding on nectar from the flowers. This winged form is the adult stage of the life cycle of moths and butterflies. Photographed in Israel

Bird orchid (Pterostylis barbata)
Bird orchid in flower (Pterostylis barbata). Photographed in western Australia

Tonguefish on the seabed. Tonguefish (family Cynoglossidae) are often found mainly in brackish water, such as where rivers flow into the sea, but a few species are found in deep sea floors

Cowslip Orchid (Caladenia flava) flowers. Photographed at Stirling Ranges, near Mount Barker, western Australia

Moorland Hawker (Aeshna juncea)
Male Moorland Hawker (Aeshna juncea), also known as Common Hawker, in flight. Photographed in France

Late Spider Orchid (Ophrys fuciflora)
Single flower of a Late Spider Orchid (Ophrys fuciflora) which is very rare in the UK. Photographed in France

Orchid (Himantoglossum hircynum)
Flowers of Orchid (Himantoglossum hircynum) which is very rare in the UK. Photographed in France

Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) in France

Greater Flamingos
Two Greater Flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber) in flight. Photographed in Camargue, France

Pyrenean chamois
A juvenile Pyrenean chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica), also known as Isard, in the Pyrenees, France

Lynx
A Lynx (Lynx lynx) lying down. This animal is rare in France but re-introduced into the Vosges and Jura area

Ascalaphus ottomanus. Photographed in Greece

A male Dalmatian Algyroides (Algyroides nigropunctatus), also known as the Blue-throated Keeled Lizard. Photographed in north-west Greece

A perched Cactus Wren
A Cactus Wren (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus) perched in an Ocotillo bush in the Arizona desert, USA

White-winged Dove (Zenaida asiatica) perched on a rock in Arizona, USA

Ocelot
Close-up of a Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis albescens) which is almost extinct. Photographed in Arizona, USA

Male Pyrrhuloxia (Cardinalis sinuatus) on the ground in the Sonoran desert, Arizona

Cactus Wren
A Cactus Wren (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus) in a dead bush in the Arizona desert, USA

Rock Rose (Cistus)
Two flowers of Rock Rose (Cistus). Photographed at RHS Rosemoor, Devon, UK, in the Summer

Polyanthus
Extreme close-up of a Polyanthus flower

Day Lily (Hemerocallis) flower. Photographed at RHS Rosemoor, Devon, UK

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