(PHOTO GALLERY) Springtime is here and along with beautiful weather it brings…butterflies! Feast your eyes on this picture gallery of amazing winged beauties, from the common to the rarest of butterflies. Then act like they do and stop and smell the flowers! — Global Animal
A Glasswing Butterfly feeds on nectar from a plant flower. Photo Credit: Stock Photo
Massive migrations of monarch butterflies along the California-Mexico coast can take these airborne insects over 3,000 miles (4,828 kilometers). Photo Credit: Hope Ryden
Butterfly and Trees, Madidi National Park, Bolivia. Photo Credit: Joel Sartore, National Geographic
A Monarch butterfly drinks nectar from purple flowers. Photo Credit: Stock Photo
A neglected eighty-eight butterfly (Diaethria neglecta) in Brazil’s Pantanal displays the design of lines and dots that gave it its unusual common name. Photo Credit: Joel Sartore
Colorful gerbera daisies highlight the rich coloration of a spicebush swallowtail butterfly (Papilio troilus). Photo Credit: Darlyne A. Murawski
A close-up photo of a male blue Morpho butterfly. Photo Credit: Cary Wolinsky
Australia’s largest butterfly, the birdwing (Ornithoptera priamus) blends into a green leaf. Female birdwings can have a wingspan of nearly 8 inches (20 centimeters). Photo Credit: Nicole Duplaix
The peacock pansy butterfly (Junionia almana) sports striking eyespots and purple patterns. Photo Credit: Tim Laman
Millions of monarch butterflies travel to ancestral winter roosts in Mexico’s shrinking mountain fir forests. Surfing winds from southern Canada and the northern U.S., they travel thousands of miles, taking directional cues from the sun. Photo Credit: Joel Sartore, National Geographic
A captive birdwing butterfly lands on a pink flower. Photo Credit: Roy Toft/National Geographic/Getty Images
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