r/butterfly

can someone help me identify it?

Heading south for a siesta.

Photos were taken in end of June of this year. So it's been a good while.

It's a marbled white, or Melanargia galathea. A butterfly that is known to have quite a fearful personality. So hard to take a picture of it in general... Except when it's too busy feeding :) So I could get some beautiful angles :D

These days when I took the pictures, I had to get outside near 8-9 AM to take the pictures because when the sun was higher, the heat was unbearable... And even for our little butterflies too much heat is too much, so they tend to hide. They were all feeding on flowers in the morning, even some waking up at like 6 AM to go to eat oO It gives you an idea of how the June heat wave was hard in Europe X.X

So huge gallery of this cutie, because I find it absolutely beautiful :) Marbled whites didn't fly for very long near our work place, only for a few weeks between June and July...

I have raised almost 100 monarchs this year with only one now making it!