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Melitaea cinxia L.
The animal spends most of its life as a black, spiny caterpillar. Butterfly lives only a few weeks. It is a medium sized orange, black and white "checkerspot" butterfly inhabiting open meadows. The males patrol along roads and habitat edges, on the lookout for the less conspicuous females which remain in dense tussocks for long periods. Mating occurs around mid-day, and as the female often continues to fly from flower to flower, mating pairs are conspicuous.
The Glanville Fritillary inhabits open grassland throughout Europe (except much of Great Britain, Scandinavia, and southern Spain) and temperate Asia (from the middle east to Mongolia.). A subspecies inhabits North Africa (Atlas mountains of Morocco). Severe population declines are reported in many European countries.
36 Comments (1–25)
Hvala ;)
amazing shot!
Thank you ;)
Amazing !
Thank you Bo :)
awesome spotting and photo
Thank you Jatishwor :)
Lovely
Thank you ;)
Thank you Adarsha! ;)
What a beauty! Nice series :)
Thank you :)
Wow! Beautiful photos of a lovely species!
It's a pretty interesting butterfly, it provides you an interactive spotting by changing its sides from under to above ;)
love white and orange side of this butterfly! :)
Thank you Pieter ;)
Waw.. Amazing pictures injica!
Grazie DFiamme ;) Si Melitee sono proprio belissime- in boca a lupo con questo spotting che ti aspetta, stavo dicendo che questa farfala non mi voleva ne anche scender dalla mano ;)
Ne nije bilo prije nevere znas kako kazu talijani: rosso di sera bel tempo si spera (crveno uveče, očekuje se lijepo vrijeme), ne znma šta mu bi, čak se i nije htio maknut s moje ruke!
Bellissima, complimenti! Io sto aspettando che esca una Melitea didyma dalla crisalide che ha fatto vicino casa mia!
wow, kako si to uspila? biće da si ga slikala prije nevere :) predivno, i leptirić i fotke!! <3
Thank you :)
lovely underside and great shots, injica.
That's true :)
Beautiful on both sides, :-)