Thursday is Butterfly Day and Insect Day Giveaway- Week 23

Hi everyone! Happy Butterfly Day and Insect Day Giveaway- Week 23! Gather around the insect pub to see butterflies and other insects, and to make new friends. Post your butterfly and other insect photos, or art work for a chance to win Steem Basic Income Shares. A minimum of 2-SBI will be given away; 1-SBI for photos and 1-SBI for art work. If no art work is submitted, then 2-SBI will be given away for photos. Depending on how many entries there are, I might be able to give away more. Entries will not be judged and winners will be chosen at random. You have 6 days for entries in this post and then a new one will begin. Thanks to all for your amazing entries! The winners for Week 22 are: @deerjay and @nelinoeva. Congratulations!

Here are the rules for the Giveaway.

1-One submission per person per week.
2-All photos and art work must be your own work. Photos and artwork from the internet will not be accepted.
3-Make your own butterfly or insect post and use one of these tags: #butterflyday or #insectpub.
4-Important! To be entered in the giveaway, you must put the link to your post in the comments below.
5-Upvotes to this post are not necessary but would be greatly appreciated, and might allow me to give away more prizes.

I am looking forward to seeing your butterflies and other insects!

Here are my photos for today of the Red-spotted Purple Butterfly.

This beautiful Red-spotted Purple is rather large with a wing span of approximately 3-3.5 inches. The only way you can tell males from females is by their size because they both look alike. Females are larger than the males.

You know how happy I am when I can capture my subject's face. Yay! It looks like it is smiling at me.

Look at the pretty colors and patterns on the underside of their wings.

Nobody knows why this butterfly fly is called red-spotted because as you can see, the spots are orange.

You can find these butterflies feeding on fruit, dung and tree sap as these are their preferences. But you can also find them sipping nectar from flowers occasionally.

Thanks for stopping by!

All photos are my own.

Information Source: entnemdept.ufl.edu

This pretty butterfly gif is brought to you by @brisby. Thank you!

Proof of transfer.

Are you looking for a caring community where your creativity and imagination can run wild? A place where you have the opportunity to win prizes for your participation? Are you looking for support or for a place that you would like to support? Then head on over to the Freewrite House and have some fun.