I'm posting this for @greenwings.bsky.social An "Inland" Bramble Hairstreak(Callophrys "dumetorum complex") on a ridge 3500' above the ocean in Big Sur #photo #nature #insect #Lepidoptera #butterfly #California

Today I was moving things from my plant propagation area in preparation for putting up my shadecloth frame. Turned around to see this gorgeous, bright flower scarab Eupoecila australasiae, (fiddler beetle), had crash landed in a water bucket. Pics don't do justice to the searing neon green!
#insect

FOUND A STAG BEETLE TODAY... she is beautiful...

A very common Costa Rican bird, the Buff-throated Saltator are widespread throughout the country. They love open areas adjacent to forest and they're in my garden at @casabentbill.bsky.social year-round.

#birds #costarica

A Violet-green swallow. I really enjoy swallows but it’s challenging to get a good pic of them. #bird #birds #birdphotography #wildlife #violet #geen #colorful

Here's a Japanese green woodpecker アオゲラ! #WoodpeckerWednesday #birds

Good morning! Our logo is in honour of the Green Hairstreak #butterfly (Callophrys rubi). Outside of Europe there is this stunning 'equivalent' - the Imperial Hairstreak (Arcas imperialis). It was seen yesterday by our group touring Peru & a highlight of another butterfly-filled day.

Splashes of green and golden-red iridescence on what I think might be an Acmon Blue female in Big Sur #photography #science(?) #nature #insect #Lepidoptera #California #BigSur #butterfly

There's just something about green butterflies that stops me in my tracks every time!

Malachite (Siproeta stelenes)

Parque Nacional do Iguazú, Paraná, Brazil

Good morning Bluey!

This shot combines two of my interests - butterflies & botany. It’s one reason the company I started @greenwingstours.bsky.social also focuses strongly on both.

It’s a Green Hairstreak (Callophrys rubi) nectaring on a Cistus creticus flower, in Rhodes, Greece.

"After spending time in the woods, I leave as a different person, recharged to my very core.

All is once again right with the world."

An Irish Atlantic Rainforest, p. 86.

Here's a lovely blue weevil. It's body is covered in tiny scales, which I drew individually (for ages)

A lovely visitor to the garden, Brimstone butterfly (Gonepteryx rhamni, family Pieridae), doing frankly an amazing job looking like a leaf!
The yellow-green underwing means this is likely a male (females have a pale green/white colour), although I'm not certain of this 🧪

Brevirostruavis macrohyoideus illustration. This Enantiornithine bird is characterized by a large hyoid structure on its head. Woodpeckers & hummingbirds have similar structures which serve as anchors for a long tongue - here speculatively used to feed on nectar & small insects in early flowers 🎨🐡🦉🧪

Hey everyone! For my first post on this platform, check out this iridescent blue and green longlegged fly (Dolichopodidae) feeding on a smaller fly. If you don't like critter pics, including some really weird and gross stuff, then I might not be one to follow 😂

Pallid Nawab Butterfly "Dragonhead" Caterpillar (Charaxes (Polyura) arja, Charaxinae, Nymphalidae)
Pu'er, Yunnan, China

Magnificent Mating Malachites (Siproeta stelenes, Nymphalidae)
Butterfly Pavilion, Natural History Museum, Los Angeles, California
(Natural range: throughout Central and northern South America, extending as far north as southern Texas and the tip of Florida.)

Here is your Wednesday Weevil (Colombia)

I definitely ought to ost here more often. Here's a lovely Saw Tooth Stag Beetle