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| | ![](https://www.fleetingwonders.com/images/t/tom/tomares_ballus_female_2014-Copier-.JPG) | << a female Provence Hairstreak (Tomares ballus) - Var (France) - 27/03/2014 | |
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| | ![](https://www.fleetingwonders.com/images/g/gla/glaucopsyche_melanops_var_2014-2-Copier-.JPG) ![](https://www.fleetingwonders.com/images/g/gla/glaucopsyche_melanops_var_2014-3-Copier-.JPG) | << two views of the same male Black-eyed Blue (Glaucopsyche melanops) - Var (France) - 27/03/2014 | |
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| | ![](https://www.fleetingwonders.com/images/g/gon/gonepteryx_cleopatra_male_2014-Copier-.JPG) | << a male Cleopatra (Gonepteryx cleopatra) - Var (France) - 27/03/2014 | |
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| | ![](https://www.fleetingwonders.com/images/h/hem/hemaris_fuciformis_2014_-2-Copier-.JPG) ![](https://www.fleetingwonders.com/images/h/hem/hemaris_fuciformis_2014_-1-Copier-.JPG) | << a Broad-bordered Bee Hawk-moth (Hemaris fuciformis) in flight - Var (France) - 27/03/2014 | |
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| | ![](https://www.fleetingwonders.com/images/l/las/lasiommata_megera_female_2014_-1-Copier-.JPG) ![](https://www.fleetingwonders.com/images/l/las/lasiommata_megera_female_2014_-2-Copier-.JPG) | << two views of the same female Wall Brown (Lasiommata megera) - Var (France) - 27/03/2014 | |
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| | ![](https://www.fleetingwonders.com/images/p/pie/pieris_rapae_female_2014_-Copier-.JPG) | << female of Small White (Pieris rapae) - Var (France) - 21/03/2014 | |
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| | ![](https://www.fleetingwonders.com/images/z/zzy/zzygaena_rhadamanthus_caterpillar_2014_-1-Copier-.JPG) ![](https://www.fleetingwonders.com/images/z/zzy/zzygaena_rhadamanthus_caterpillar_2014_-2-Copier-.JPG) | << caterpillar of a Slate Burnet (Zygaena rhadamanthus) found on Onobrychis supina and close-up of the head when eating - Var (France) - 21/03/2014 | |
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| | ![](https://www.fleetingwonders.com/images/a/ant/anthocharis_euphenoides_male_2014_-3-Copier-.JPG) | << views of the Provence Orange Tip just emerged from the chrysalis shown below | |
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| | ![](https://www.fleetingwonders.com/images/a/ant/anthocharis_euphenoides_chrysalis_2014_-2-Copier-.JPG) ![](https://www.fleetingwonders.com/images/a/ant/anthocharis_euphenoides_chrysalis_2014_-1-Copier-.JPG) | << four views of the same chrysalis of a Provence Orange Tip (Anthocharis euphenoides), showing its quick changes in colour before the butterfly emerges. The yellow & orange colours of the wings indicate that the butterfly is a male. Amazingly the tints are stronger on the 20th of March than on the 21st of March - Var (France) | |
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| | ![](https://www.fleetingwonders.com/images/t/tom/tomares_ballus_male_var_2014-Copier-.JPG) | << a male of Provence Hairstreak (Tomares ballus) - Var (France) - 18/03/2014 | |
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| | ![](https://www.fleetingwonders.com/images/v/van/vanessa_cardui_var_2014_-Copier-.JPG) | << a female Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) laying on a thistle & close-up of the egg - Var (France) - 18/03/2014 | |
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