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Did you know there are 24,000 different kinds ofbutterflies worldwide? Butterflies range in size from atiny 1/8 inch to a huge almost 12 inches. Thetransformation of the frequently ugly or bizarrecaterpillar into an elegant butterflyis truly oneof the regularly performed miracles of nature. For aneven closer view, you can buy butterflykits to raise Painted Lady Butterflies fromcaterpillar to adult, right in your home. Below we havecollected some butterfly pictures, butterfly coloringpages and caterpillar pictures for you to enjoy! You arewelcome to use these images for personal use.

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FREEdragonfly pictures - more than 35 picturesof all sorts of colorful dragonflies! Pluslinks to MORE dragonfly picture sites!

Freewallpaper and free screensavers includingbutterfly wallpaper, animal wallpaper,nature wallpaper, flower wallpaper as wellas butterfly screensavers and freeanimated butterflies!

Greatbutterfly photos by artist Barbara Bosco, andlovely butterfly prints by talented artistKathleen Russell. Lovely art with butterflies.

10 FREE Butterfly Coloring Pages for you toprint out. Great black and white clipartimages large enough to color.

20 FREE animated butterfly graphics to choose from. All different colors and sizes, some with flowers too, lovely!

16 pages of butterfly images. A photographic essay on the relationship between butterflies and flowering ornamental plants.

By the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center. This comprehensive site includes lists of butterflies by state, and lots of photos.

Absolutely wonderful pictures of all stages of a monarch butterfly life cycle. Caterpillars, chrysalis, adults emerging and adult monarchs.

Whether you enjoy taking butterfly pictures or just enjoy looking at them, if you are teaching a class or taking a class and need butterfly pictures, if you are a true butterfly enthusiast or a passing butterfly admirer, you can find all of the resources you need right here on the internet quickly and easily.

Butterflies are one of the more difficult things in nature to take pictures of, and also some of the most beautiful. These tips are for the amateur photographer who just wants to take some amazing butterfly pictures with a normal, affordable camera.

One of the favorite free nature wallpaper downloads is butterfly wallpaper. There are butterfly wallpapers that are as beautiful and colorful as if a real butterfly had landed on your computer screen. Article on where to find them.

Some of the scenic wallpapers you can choose from are nature scenes like oceans, amber autumn forests scenes, mountain scenes, and beautiful, unusual cloudy sky scenes. You can also find animal scenic wallpapers like dogs and cats, dolphins, butterflies and birds.

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Looking forbutterfly pictures online is much less limiting thansearching through books, and it is so much faster to findwhat you are looking for, too. Simply open yourfavorite web browser and type in “butterfly pictures”to see a large variety of species of butterflies, or youcan type in a particular species, such as “Monarchbutterfly pictures”. You can also search online forpictures of the butterflylife cycle, or just for caterpillar or cocoon picturesand find almost as many wonderful free photos, images,drawings and clipart of butterflies.

The lifecycle of a butterfly is an amazing wonder of nature thatmany school teachers will cover in science and biologyclasses. Teachers can find all of the butterflypictures that they need online and copy them to a disc inorder to show them to their classrooms. It is legal toborrow and make copies of copyrighted materials forteaching purposes in the United States. Teachers ofpreschool and kindergarten classes enjoy printing butterflycoloring pages for their classrooms off of theinternet, too.

Studentsdoing schoolwork will also find it much easier to includebutterfly pictures in their reports when they find them onthe internet. When students use books to search forbutterfly pics they will need to find a place to makecopies of the images and then cut them out and paste themonto their report pages. When they find butterflypictures on the internet, with only a few clicks of themouse they can copy and paste the actual photos directlyinto their report, no glue is necessary.

Some peoplejust enjoy surfing the web for their favorite things, likebutterflies, and enjoy looking at all of the beautifulbutterfly pictures that they find. This is a greatway to spend your time, just make sure not to make copiesof any of the pictures or drawings that you find on theinternet without the permission of the owner of the website. If you do, you could be in violation ofcopyright laws and could find yourself in trouble.

Some websites will tell you that it is okay to use their picturesfor personal use, and if this is the case it is okay tocopy them if you are planning to use them as a backgroundfor your computer or print them and place them in a frameto hang on your office wall. It is not okay,however, to reproduce these pictures and put them on yourown web site, in your own book that will be published, ordistribute it in any other public manner withoutpermission.

It is best tojust enjoy the wonderful butterfly photos that you findand, if you like, keep a personal file of them so that youcan look at them any time you want, or just save the website in your favorites to get back to it more easily.This way you can see all of the new butterfly pictures,drawings, clip art, and images that have been added sinceyour last visit, too.

If you enjoy takingbutterfly pictures, you can find many web sites thatwill accept submissions of butterfly photographs that theymay include on their site. This is a great way tosee your artwork in print. If you took thephotograph, you can submit it to as many butterfly pictureweb sites as you like – the copyright belongs to youunless somebody pays you for exclusive rights to the photoor purchases it from you outright. At that point thecopyright belongs to them.

If you are abutterfly photographer, it is also a good idea to take alook at other people’s butterfly pictures in order tohave some comparisons and to get some ideas for picturesthat you want to take. Butterfly photography is oneof the more difficult of nature photography becausebutterflies are small and so delicate, and they rarelystay still and pose for a photograph. Taking goodbutterfly pictures takes practice and dedication, but itis well worth the work to get the perfect shot.

Whether youenjoy taking butterfly pictures or just enjoy looking atthem, if you are teaching a class or taking a class andneed butterfly pictures, if you are a true butterflyenthusiast or a passing butterfly admirer, you can findall of the resources you need right here on the internetquickly and easily. There is no shortage ofbutterfly information online. All you have to do islook for it.

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