#hairstreak

[herpsandbirds]

Provence Hairstreak (Tomares ballus), family Lycaenidae, found in northern Africa and SW Europe

photograph by @yaylalperen

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[jenfoundabug]

The little orange hat 🥹🥰

Grey hairstreak (Strymon melinus) on native turkey mullein (Croton setiger), Northern California, US These adorably small butterflies wiggle their back wings while at rest. It is thought that this movement combined with the markings and "antennae" on their back wings are meant to mimic an insect's head. This coaxes jumping spiders, a major predator of smaller pollinators, to attack the wrong side of the butterfly, allowing it to flee.

[lunarlotuscove]

Grey hairstreaks are SO pretty

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[colorsoutofearth]

Green hairstreak butterfly (Callophrys rubi)

Photo by Robert Thompson

[strawberryshark9000]

Half moon hairstreak 🌗🦋

Scientific Name: Satyrium semiluna

Likes fruits and flowers 🌼🍉 🍎 🍌 

Shy butterfly that likes to perch on vegetation and sunbathing ☀️ 😎 

Calm and collected 🧘‍♀️

Kinda thick body type 🩶↔️

Lives in Canada to northern South America ❄️ 

The butterfly is called a half moon hairstreak and one of its favorite flowers looks like the sun! (Flower name: Arnica) I think that’s cool☀️🌒

if I were good at art I would make a human oc of all of the butterflies 😔

also if I were to add a character I would say Banyue from heavens official blessing.

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[herpsandbirds]

Sandia Hairstreak (Callophrys mcfarlandi), family Lycaenidae, Big Bend National Park, TX, USA

Photograph by Cecil Wingfield

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[i-eat-butterflies-when-im-alone]

PROVENCE HAIRSTREAK BUTTERFLY

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it is your turn to come up with a nice caption for this post!!!!!!!!!! 8/10 on the edible scale!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[onenicebugperday]

SHE'S PERFECT

Throwback to last year when I found an irl wurmple and she hatched into a grey hairstreak butterfly this spring

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[amequeer]

Brought back from dead

Literally lmao

They are bringing my boy Morro back, I wonder what plans they have for him,,,,

probably more trauma for everyone

I really really like his translucent arm but also BRING HIS HAIRSTREAK BACK

Art requests and asks are open!

[vandaliatraveler]

Summer has arrived, and with it, the single greatest proliferation of life in Central Appalachia. This is the time of great, ostentatious wildflowers, one more showy and resplendent than the next, each competing with the other for the swarms of pollinators that have emerged to drink from the earth's sweet nectar pots, find their mates, and plant their eggs in the all-too-brief span before their whirring energies have faded into oblivion. At no time do I feel more connected to life's urgent, relentless pulse than in the electric heat of summer; the rich meadows, bogs, streambanks, and hedgerows are my temples and the tiny creatures that come to them to feed and renew their kind are the only intermediaries I need to realize true spiritual peace and joy.

The photos above are from a late afternoon bike ride on Deckers Creek Trail.

[thethingything]

I've spent so much time IDing things on iNat over the last few days that now when I see random photos of creatures on here I start mentally sorting them into the lowest taxonomic category I can identify them as being in before realising there's no button to suggest an ID because this is Tumblr not iNaturalist