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Bright brown butterfly feeding on flower nectar
lovely orange butterfly sunning itself int he dingo enclosure at cleland ...
'The Bolt & The Beautiful' Found this on top deck of a sailing yacht
Orange and black butterfly, with small eye spots, one each wing.
Approx 45mm long; wings closed only underwing seen.
Brown butterfly, two spots like eyes on tail end of both wings, orange markings ...
Rusty orange with darker brown framing
Common brown butterfly, female, The females have much darker patches on their ...
A bright brown patterned butterfly very common in summer. This was found on an ...
This common grass brown butterfly is very prolific over summer. Before ...
40mm wingspan; all wings deep yellow and black-brown patterns which include 2 ...
This one looked to be about 45mm across but I couldn't get within a couple of ...
Look who came to my front door today. Rather too cold to fly far, it posed on ...
Really tattered and worn, but still alive! Endemic to Australia.
orange with creamy yellow and dark brown patches towards the tip of its ...
This series shows several specimens resting on flowers in close proximity to ...
Yellow/orange lightly furred body, same coloured wings with dark chocolate to ...
an attractive yellowish-brown butterfly with a wingspan of 70mm. Half of the ...
An orange coloured butterfly about 5 to 6 cms long. Has distinct eye spots on ...
Three wing segments from a Common Brown butterfly (female)
Male wingspan, 56mm. Males fly slowly close to the ground over grasses early in ...
The first female common brown for the summer. The slightly smaller males always ...
Endemic to Australia, common in Tasmania. Here is a link to a very worn Common ...
Males are less colourful being a mixture of brown and orange, again with an ...
This is the female of the species. Wings were dark with bright yellow patterns ...
Many of these male 'Common Browns' are currently busy in our back yard. A large ...
This attractive dark brown butterfly had a wing span of about 50 mm. Both fore ...