#lepidoptera is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 78 people shared 363 posts with it — around 12 a day. Activity is down 32% versus the previous week, peaking on Aug 27 with 20 posts.

Posts with #lepidoptera

Tony Allen-Mills

@taminf.bsky.social

3 months ago

When I first spotted this butterfly a couple of hours ago, the first thing I had to do was stop my hands shaking. It's one of the rarest butterflies in France, a vanishing species in much of Europe. It's the mountain Apollo (Parnassius Apollo). Just in time for #InsectThursday #lepidoptera

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Mike Melton

@mikemelton.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Well, this was a real treat this afternoon as I found this Periplacis menander #butterfly outside my kitchen window. A new species for @casabentbill.bsky.social (and for me). These have a wide range from Mexico to southern Brazil, but they aren't common. #lepidoptera #costarica #butterflies #bugsky

A vibrant blue and black butterfly rests with wings open on a bright green leaf, showing iridescent patterns and delicate details.

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Catherine Gulsvig

@crgulsvig.bsky.social

3 months ago

Glorious female Black Swallowtail in my meadow this evening Nature is amazing #Lepidoptera #Butterflies #Naturephotography

Green wildflower meadow with many Black-Eyed Susans and thistles. In the center of the photo is a large black butterfly with striking blue markings along the lower edges of its wings

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Gray

@grays.art

4 days ago

It’s FlyDay. We made it! Mallow scrub-hairstreak butterfly (Strymon istapa) on beggar tick wildflower (Bidens alba) CREW pen flint strand pines trails Bonita Springs, Florida 9-13-26 #FlyDay #eck #macro #nature #threeWordGenre #art #macroPhotography #native #butterflies #bugsky #Lepidoptera

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Gray

@grays.art

3 days ago

Tersa Sphinx caterpillar (Xylophanes tersa) on a slender twig Vibrant defensive eye-spots stare-down the morning. CREW pen flint strand lake trails Bonita Springs, Florida 9-15-26 #ColorADay #greenSat #eck #macro #nature #green #threeWordGenre #art #macroPhotography #native #lepidoptera #bugsky

Macro of a caterpillar captured in a striking head-on portrait that forms a defensive snake mimicry posture. The swollen green thorax features a smooth, lime-green coloration divided by a fine vertical line down the center. Two massive, round false eyespots dominate the sides, displaying a black center rimmed by a thin brown band and encircled by a thick white border to simulate the eyes of a serpent. Faint, pale yellow stripes sweep downward beneath the markings toward its hidden head. The background is completely dark and smoothly out of focus, heavily isolating the graphic features of the illusion.

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Mike Melton

@mikemelton.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

This beauty showed up in the garden of @casabentbill.bsky.social yesterday. I'm not sure, but I think this is the family Castniidae, possibly Divana diva. #butterflies #costarica #lepidoptera #nature

Butterfly with brown, orange, and bright blue wings perched on a light-colored stem.

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Zee 🏳️‍🌈🪲🐈🏳️‍⚧️🤿🛶

@zeesm.bsky.social

7 months ago

Dreaming of spring butterflies on a dreary gray day. This Gray Hairstreak (Strymon melinus) is a cheerier sort of gray. #butterflies #Lepidoptera #pacificnorthwest #insects #entomology 🐙

a gray butterfly with long tails on the hindwings is perched upside down on a green plant

A grey butterfly with long dark tails and small orange spots on the hindwings is perched with wings open

Side view of a perched gray butterfly with a row of tiny black dots and a larger orange spot on the hindwings

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Catherine Gulsvig

@crgulsvig.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

The Eyed Brown (Satyrodes eurydice) made an appearance in our driveway after the night's rain. All those eyes! And the double eye at the bottom! #Butterflies #Lepidoptera #Naturephotography

Small butterfly sits, wings up, on gravel. His wings are colored a mottled brown and have stunning eyespots all along their borders. Each eye is a set of concentric circles in white, blue, gold, dark brown, light brown, and darkish-brown.

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Catherine Gulsvig

@crgulsvig.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

Great-Spangled Fritillary (Speyeria cybele) in my driveway just now, and I see my secret is revealed (I rub my fingers in the gravel to attract them, but would you blame me?) #Butterflies #Lepidoptera #Naturephotography

Large orange butterfly with dark-brown markings in a variety of geometric shapes rests in photographer's hand. A small speck of gravel can be seen on the tip of the photographer's index finger.

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Aussie Moths

@wa-moths.bsky.social

4 days ago

One of the many Plume moths that has visited our Perth Hills garden this week. This one looks like it’s playing an invisible trombone 🪊 #teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist

Side view of a moth either just landing or just taking off from a pale surface so the moth appears to be stood upright. The moths wings are partially open and show feathering

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Aussie Moths

@wa-moths.bsky.social

3 days ago

Grammodes ocellata - Large-eyed Box-Owlet These striking moths can be seen around Australia. This one was seen in a coastal area around 150km north of Perth in early September. #teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist

Top view of a moth with black forewings that have two broad diagonal yellow stripes and an eye spot at the bottom of each wing

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Julian Miholics

@pansybeast.bsky.social

4 months ago

hummingbird hawk-moth sculpture Cone 5.5 stoneware, underglaze, glaze, nichrome wire, china paint, gold filled chain (SOLD) 🏵️ #ceramics #lepidoptera 🏵️