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The Four-Banded Longhorn Beetle (Leptura quadrifasciata)
With four yellow bands and antennae longer than your Monday to-do list, this wood-loving beetle helps break down dead and decaying trees, returning nutrients to the forest floor.

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Yes, it was brought forward by the Beetle Society!

Rhagonycha fulva - nature's little exhibitionists

Commonly known as the red soldier beetle, but today serving in a very private mission.

Summer fields = beetle Tinder.

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The Meadow Brown (Maniola jurtina)

Found fluttering low in grassy meadows, perfectly camouflaged for avoiding awkward social encounters (and predators) + Its wing eyespots can startle predators.

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Huh? No, why would you think so?

Haleakala Sunrise, Maui, Hawaii, USA 03.08.2012
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This is just unbelievably beautiful, Alan.
One of those perfect sunset moments captured for us to see on bluesky! 💛

The common buzzard (Buteo buteo)

A medium-sized raptor found across Europe and parts of Asia.
With broad wings and a soaring flight style, it uses thermals to conserve energy while scanning for prey like voles, rabbits, and the occasional unlucky earthworm.
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Polygonia c-album, commonly known as the Comma

Its jagged wings and earthly colors help it blend effortlessly into dead leaves and tree bark.

It gets its name from a small white mark on the underside of its hindwing — shaped like a comma or the letter “C”.

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You are very welcome! Have a wonderful day as well 💛

She is indeed fierce looking and staring into my soul!
This is a bird you better dont cross! 💛

The Map (Araschnia levana)

Its intricate wing patterns look like tiny roadmaps, hence the name!

In spring, it even wears a different outfit (orange and black) than in summer (dark with white lines).

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This landscape is fantastic. Must be pure bliss living there! 😍

Pure bliss 😍

BILD schreibt BILD Dinge, leider.

I'm sure it recovered. They can take a punch. 🙂
You have a big heart! 💛🙂🙌

Beautiful catch and nice details, Egor!
Bees are the best! 😎🙌

Thank you kindly for your feedback, Arto.
That's a great choice. The natural colours of the butterfly "pop" so nice in that one and its less obviously edited.

A macro photography of a common Brimstone butterfly that sits on little white and pink blossoms, its trunk sunk into one of them to drink nectar.

A macro photography of a common Brimstone butterfly that sits on little white and pink blossoms, its trunk sunk into one of them to drink nectar.

A macro photography of a common Brimstone butterfly that sits on little white and pink blossoms, its trunk sunk into one of them to drink nectar. This is a closer up with even more details. The picture even shows the fine fur on the body and the scales on the wings.

The Common Brimstone

The butterfly that probably inspired the word butterfly.
With its lemon-yellow wings and a talent for vanishing into foliage, it's basically the ninja of the butterfly world.
Which picture is your favourite?

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Perfect timing, "split" optical illusion.👀😱

📸Kenichi Ohno

Thank you, Gina! 🙌💛 it really is a beauty, isn’t it?! A first time for me spotting one of them.

Thank you so very much, Gina 💛 🙂

So beautiful, Pipa.
I love the birds running over the lily pads ❤️

Adscita statices, the green forester moth

Living proof that moths didn’t get the memo about being boring. Metallic green, loves meadows, and drinks nectar like it's a full-time job.

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Meine Alma Mater!
Abschluss in Kartoffologie.

Thank you so much! 💛

Thank you very much!

And that's the proper way.
They are so useful and usually leave us alone.
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Wie schön du es auf den Punkt bringst. Mir fallen Bildbeschreibungen meistens leider recht schwer und umso mehr freue ich mich jetzt, so eine tolle Beschreibung zu einem meiner Bilder zu lesen.
Danke! 💛