Lepidoptera Socks

Description: *Click upper image to enlarge 1003 Views Many thanks to Celeste & Colin for their assistance in helping to identify this insect! Related info re this insect: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemaris_diffinis !http://ih2.redbubble.net/image.25445821.5892/papergc,441x415,w,ffffff.2u1.jpg! Featured in: - Individual Talent On Display - If It Moves, Shoot it! - Winged Insects - Bees, Butterflies, etc - Insects, Bugs & Creepy Crawlies - Tiny Creatures In Macro - Just Butterflies - _2nd Place, Made By Nature challenge (40 entries) - _Top Ten_, Winged Insects challenge (35 entries) - _Top Ten_, 3rd Place, Closeups In Nature challenge (39 entries) - _Top Ten_, Amazing Challenge Entertainment - _Top Ten_’, Just Butterfl...

Description: Nymphalis antiopa, known as the mourning cloak in North America and the Camberwell beauty in Britain, is a large butterfly native to Eurasia and North America. Other older names for this species include grand surprise and white petticoat. A powerful flier, this species is sometimes found in areas far from its usual range during migration. These butterflies have a lifespan of 11 to 12 months, one of the longest lifespans for any butterfly.

Description: This is a gouache painting of a milkweed plant covered in monarch butterflies, caterpillars, chrysalis, and eggs. This would be an awesome gift for an elementary school teach or grandmothers who love to garden.

Description: The ‘Karner’ Melissa Blue has historically been considered a subspecies of the Melissa Blue, a western species, and is listed as federally endangered. Its host plant is Wild Lupine which usually grows in Pine Barren habitats.

Description: Vanessa cardui is a well-known colourful butterfly, known as the painted lady. Like monarchs, this species also migrates, although not over the same great distance.

Description: A striking yellow butterfly often seen in many areas of North America!

Description: Junonia coenia, known as the common buckeye or buckeye, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in all parts of the United States except the northwest, and is especially common in the South, the California coast, and throughout Central America.

Description: Insects with beautiful wings! What could be better? Flaunt these pretty creatures with this design!

Description: Did you know that this beautiful butterfly looks like poop at every stage before it reaches adulthood?

Description: The red admiral is a very beautiful butterfly. In summer / late summer you meet him in garden, field, forest or meadow. The graceful butterfly cuts a good figure on every T-shirt.

Description: Automeris io, the Io moth, is a colorful North American moth in the family Saturniidae. The Io (EYE-oh) moth ranges from the southeast corner of Manitoba and in the southern extremes of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in Canada, and in the US it is found from Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, east of those states and down to the southern end of Florida.

Description: The red admiral is a very beautiful butterfly. In summer / late summer you meet him in garden, field, forest or meadow. The graceful butterfly cuts a good figure on every T-shirt.

Description: A lil moth surfing the galaxy in their UFO.

Description: Saddleback caterpillar - one of those beautiful "look, don't touch" moths. AKA Slug Caterpillar Moth.

Description: Very detailed artwork of Monarch butterflies in formation

Description: Clymene Moth (Haploa clymene), a beautiful daytime tiger moth - wings closed on front, and wings open on back. Original Paintings: John Himmelman

Description: Monarch Caterpillar feeding on leaf in the garden. As a member of the Lepidoptera family it will transform into the familiar adult Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus).

Description: Giant leopard moths are nocturnal. They are distributed through North America from southern Ontario, and southern and eastern United States through New England, Mexico and down to Panama.

Description: ubicunda, the rosy maple moth, is a small North American moth in the family Saturniidae, also known as the great silk moths. It was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1793. The species is known for its wooly body and pink and yellow coloration, which varies from cream or white to bright pink or yellow.[2] Males have bushier antennae than females, which allow them to sense female pheromones for mating.

Description: Very detailed artwork of Monarch butterflies in a spin

Description: Trivia: Ulysses butterflies (Papilio ulysses) bask in the sunshine during the day -- they love the heat from the sun!

Description: Beautiful buckeye butterfly

Description: There's a Luna Moth on your shirt! Ethereal .... Ephemeral

Description: You're hosting a moth party! You are the light.

Description: The first butterfly I designed for my butterflies collection, also available on blue.

Description: I drew this to raise awareness for the Quino Checkerspot Butterfly and the Desert Indigo Plantain. Both are endangered of becoming extinct in light of habitat destruction and loss

Description: Blinded Sphinx moth wings open (unblinded), showing blue eyespots! on front. Wings closed - "eyes blinded" on back.

Description: Clymene Moth (Haploa clymene) wings open on front - flashing tiger orange, closed on back. Original Art: John Himmelman

Description: Capture attention with hand-drawn sketches of four endangered butterflies! To help support these eye-catching butterflies, I donate 90% of profits from sale of this artwork to conservation-focused charities and organizations!

Description: Lemon Plagodis - full of lemony goodness! A common yellow and pink moth in spring.

Description: Those Eyes! Small-eyed Sphinx Moth showing hind wing eyespots.

Description: A gorgeous silkmoth that lives in North America.

Description: Colorful sherbet Rosy Maple Moths - kind of actual size - having a meeting.

Description: Moth (and other insects) field marks and anatomy right there for ya!