Even though you know they are gorgeous, and even though you’re already aware of the vast variety of these magical creatures, I bet at least one or two of these butterflies and moths surprise you with a moment of awe–or move you by their cumulative effect. There are many of them because I couldn’t stop myself or choose. Also, I couldn’t resist including a dragonfly and wasp. They seemed to fit right in. Anyway, enjoy.
![butt, Queen Alexandra’s Birdwings, wingspan more than one foot](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-Queen-Alexandra’s-Birdwings-wingspan-more-than-one-foot1.jpg)
Queen Alexandra’s Birdwings
![butt, 2](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-2.jpg)
![butt, 3](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-3.jpg)
![butt, 5](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-5.jpg)
![butt, 6](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-6.jpg)
![butt, 9](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-9.jpg)
![butt, 11](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-11.jpg)
![butt, 15](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-151.jpg)
Goliath Birdwing
![butt, 12](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-12.jpg)
![butt, 16](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-16.jpg)
![butt, 17](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-17.jpg)
![butt, 18](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-18.jpg)
![butt, African Mocker Swallowtail](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-African-Mocker-Swallowtail.jpg)
African Mocker Swallowtail
![butt, Brahmin Moth](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-Brahmin-Moth.jpg)
Brahmin Moth
![butt, Common Rose Butterfly](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-Common-Rose-Butterfly.jpg)
Common Rose butterfly
![butt, fluffy tit by loke pf check name](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-fluffy-tit-by-loke-pf-check-name.jpg)
Fluffy tit butterfly by loke pf
![butt, Garden Tiger Moth](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-Garden-Tiger-Moth.jpg)
Garden Tiger Moth
![butterfly, luna moth](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butterfly-luna-moth.jpg)
Luna moth
![butt, anthony wong, great mormon](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-anthony-wong-great-mormon.jpg)
Great Mormon butterfly by Anthony Wong
![butt, Clouded Apollo Butterfly by clive](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-Clouded-Apollo-Butterfly-by-clive.jpg)
Clouded Apollo butterfly by Clive Burrows
![butt, European Peacock Butterfly (Photo by Claude@Munich)](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-European-Peacock-Butterfly-Photo-by-Claude@Munich.jpg)
European Peacock Butterfly by Claude@Munich
![butt, Madagascan Sunset Moth](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-Madagascan-Sunset-Moth.jpg)
Madagascan Sunset moth
![butt, Pipe-Vine Swallowtail Butterfly.](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-Pipe-Vine-Swallowtail-Butterfly..jpg)
Pipe Vine Swallowtail butterfly
![butt, The Comet Moth, amaz things](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-The-Comet-Moth-amaz-things.jpg)
The Comet moth
![butt, Question Mark Butterfly.](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-Question-Mark-Butterfly..jpg)
![butt, susan bag](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-susan-bag.jpg)
![butt, great mormon 3](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-great-mormon-3.jpg)
Great Mormon butterfly
![butt, great mormon 2](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-great-mormon-2.jpg)
Yet another Great Mormon
![butt, rice paper butterfly](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-rice-paper-butterfly.jpg)
Rice Paper butterfly
![butt, 8](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-8.jpg)
![butt, Paulogramma pyracmon.](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-Paulogramma-pyracmon..jpg)
Paulogramma Pyracmon
![butt, Spicebush Swallowtail](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-Spicebush-Swallowtail.jpg)
Spicebush Swallowtail
![butterflies, Red Dragonfly](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butterflies-Red-Dragonfly.jpg)
Red Dragonfly
![butterfly, 2](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butterfly-2.jpg)
![butt, Scarlet Tiger Moth](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-Scarlet-Tiger-Moth.jpg)
Scarlet Tiger moth
![butts, Papilio cresphontes.](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butts-Papilio-cresphontes..jpg)
Papillo Cresphontes
![butterfly, glasswinged](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butterfly-glasswinged.jpg)
Glasswinged
![butterfly, glasswinged, 2](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butterfly-glasswinged-2.jpg)
![butterfly, Elephant Hawk-Moth](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butterfly-Elephant-Hawk-Moth.jpg)
Elephant Hawk moth
![butterfly, moth](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butterfly-moth.jpg)
moth
![butts. The Cecropia Moth](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butts.-The-Cecropia-Moth.jpg)
The Cecropia moth
![butt, Scarlet Tiger Moth](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-Scarlet-Tiger-Moth1.jpg)
Scarlet Tiger moth
![butts, Emerald moth](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butts-Emerald-moth.jpg)
Emerald moth
![butts, Cinnabar Moth](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butts-Cinnabar-Moth.jpg)
Cinnabar moth
![butts, Marpesia iole (Costa Rica)](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butts-Marpesia-iole-Costa-Rica.jpg)
Marpesia iole from Costa Rica
![butts, pink moth](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butts-pink-moth.jpg)
pink moth
![largest butterfly is the Queen Alexandra’s birdwing from Papua New Guinea with a wingspan of 28 cm (11 in).](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butts-The-world’s-largest-butterfly-is-the-Queen-Alexandra’s-birdwing-from-Papua-New-Guinea-with-a-wingspan-of-28-cm-11-in..jpg)
World’s largest butterfly, Queen Alexandra’s birdwing from Papua New Guinea
![butterfly, peacock katydid](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butterfly-peacock-katydid.jpg)
Peacock katydid
![Butterfly moth, scarlet body wasp moth by boondockphotography](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Butterfly-moth-scarlet-body-wasp-moth-by-boondockphotography.png)
Scarlet body wasp moth by boondockphotography
![butterflies](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butterflies.jpg)
![butt, monarchs](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-monarchs.jpg)
monarchs
![butterfly moth close up by Charles Krebs](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butterfly-moth-close-up-by-Charles-Krebs.jpg)
Moth wing close up by Charles Krebs
![butts, Malachite Butterfly.](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butts-Malachite-Butterfly..jpg)
Malachite butterfly
![butterflies, blue](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butterflies-blue.jpg)
By Papillio Ulysess
![butt, red](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-red.jpg)
![butterfly](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butterfly.jpg)
![butt, from nat geo](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butt-from-nat-geo.jpg)
![butterfly (2)](http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/butterfly-21.jpg)
Thanks to: Candace Bingham at pinterest,
Butterflycircle at blogspot and
OurWorldsView at facebook
Ooo lah lah! Thanks again, Dusk, for sharing such wonders!
It is a great collection of photographs of some of the most beautiful ,colorful butterflies and moths.The glass one i had never seen. The trunk of the tree covered with blue butterflies and the with monarch are great. Each one is a piece of art.
It once again proves the “GOD” a greatest artist.
an outstanding gift from god
Ah, Dusky, Such beauteous sights. I have about 30 butterflies hanging above my bed to lift away my cares and woes as I sleep. Thanks, again, lady. Be well.
OMG how can anyone get tired of seeing the vast variety of butterflies! Some of them didn’t even look real. One was so iridescent that I thought it was a delicate hand blown figurine!
Thanks again for sharing, Dusky!
Wow, I wouldn’t know where to begin! They’re all simply amazing.
Thanks Dusky
Thank you for taking the time to prove only God can create such beauty and design!