Colorful Beauty in Nature: Butterflies

By COLOURlover // June 1, 2007

One particular place to find amazing colors in nature is the Butterfly and lucky for us there are 17,500 species of butterflies in the world.

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They use their bright colors to ward of predators by tricking them into thinking they are poisonous (some actually are) or by camouflaging themselves into plants or bigger insects.

A Collection of 18 Beautiful Butterflies & Their Color Palettes

L'oeil de Caen

by Infosix

"SONY DSC Alpha 100
<br/ >Lentille Tamron Macro 90mm F/2.8"

Papillon bleu

by Infosix

"SONY DSC Alpha 100
<br/ >Lentille Tamron Macro 90mm F/2.8"

Monarch Butterfly

by fyimo

"This Monarch Butterfly was feeding on my Butterfly Bush. I took it in September and I just found it today and worked it in photoshop."

"Butterfly Shot at my Back yard -- It stayed there for 15 Minutes posing for me before it took off---- Shot with a 100mm Macro Vivitar Lens. Exposed for the butterly Wings, Shot it for the shear beauty..."

Papillon bleu

by melolou

"My most interesting photos."

Elena is warming up

by Glenset

Lemon Emigrant

by B_cool

Le papillon léopard

by Infosix

"SONY DSC Alpha 100
Lentille Tamron Macro 90mm F/2.8 "

Butterfly's in Winter

by Ben_Nelson

Happy

by vulture1960

"Let's make everybody happy today. Be positive. "

Silver studded blue

by mangold47

Another Phuket Butterfly

by Steve_C

Scarce Swallowtail

by runnerwill1448

Orangetip, Bintree Woods

by Dave Appleton

A day at the zoo

by Joy23

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43 Comments

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sisushka

Posted Jun 1, 2007

Those palettes are brilliant! Yummy :-)

The Cooler

Posted Jun 1, 2007

wow those are amazing, one of natures most beautiful creations

crayz_walz

Posted Jun 1, 2007

great stuff fantastic colours .

pixeljedi

Posted Jun 1, 2007

Those palettes are gorgeous! Love this article. :)

lizcrimson

Posted Jun 1, 2007

this is so gorgeous i'm speechless. i'm scrolling through with my jaw dropped. stunning!

lizcrimson

Posted Jun 1, 2007

i saw a poster once that i wanted to get. it was all the letters of the alphabet found naturally on butterfly wings. they were close-ups of various wings. it also had numbers from 0 - 9.

lizcrimson

Posted Jun 1, 2007

Team

-PureForm-

Posted Jun 1, 2007

I remember that poster! 2nd grade nostalgia :-)

realitybites

Posted Jun 1, 2007

Beautiful!

greenie

Posted Jun 1, 2007

The palettes and the photos are stunning - well done!

trademarkrain

Posted Jun 2, 2007

When I was young, my dad always told me to look at butterflies and flowers to find colors that work well together.

ms. mary

Posted Jun 2, 2007

Love all of them! I remember that poster too!
Great stuff

FeaturePics Images

Posted Jun 4, 2007

magamuga

Posted Jun 5, 2007

Nice idea! Great work...

jlbee

Posted Jun 5, 2007

love these winged beauties as inspiration. yes.

ajennell

Posted Jun 6, 2007

Wonderful collection. Very inspiring.

universal

Posted Jun 11, 2007

Nature is a wonderous thing! superb!

zetra001

Posted Jun 21, 2007

BangBang

Posted Jul 2, 2007

Ooh they are soo so so so beautifull!!! -oke I think I'm gonna go paint butterflyes now

linelica

Posted Jul 2, 2007

cool!!!!

I love it!!!!!

kath48

Posted Jul 11, 2007

hi everyone, myself and a friend saw the biggest butterfly we have ever seen, if it is a butterfly. wow! this thing was gigantic! it had a really strange looking head, it looked like it had 4 things pointing out of it. it almost looked like a bat. it was brown with some kind of design. it was at least 5-6 inches across. it definitely was not pretty. anyone ever heard or seen such a thing.