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The Misty Montes are a range of mountains on Titan, the largest moon of the planet Saturn. The range is located in the northern hemisphere of Titan, between 56–7° north and 61–3° west. The range is located in the northern hemisphere of Titan, between 56–7° north and 61–3° west.
Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds . Charles O'Rear , a former National Geographic photographer, took the photo in January 1998 near the Napa – Sonoma county line, California, after a ...
Aeropetes is a monotypic butterfly genus in the family Nymphalidae. Its only species, Aeropetes tulbaghia , is commonly known as the Table Mountain beauty or mountain pride . It is native to southern Africa , where it occurs in South Africa , Lesotho , Eswatini and Zimbabwe .
This mountain butterfly species prefers hills and flowery alpine meadows, and pastures of the continental European mountains, in Spain, Scandinavia and Central Europe, in the Balkans up to northern Greece, and in the Alps between Italy and France. [5] [3] Habitat of Parnassius apollo in La Thuile, Italy, at about 2700 m above sea level
The clouded Apollo (Parnassius mnemosyne) is a butterfly species of the family of swallowtail butterflies (Papilionidae) found in the Palearctic realm.. Clouded Apollos inhabit meadows and woodland clearings with plenty of flowering plants, both in the lowlands and in the mountains.
Phengaris rebeli (formerly Maculinea rebeli), common name mountain Alcon blue, [1] is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was first found and described in Styria , Austria, on Mount Hochschwab around 1700. [ 2 ]
Parnassius smintheus, the Rocky Mountain parnassian [1] or Rocky Mountain apollo, [2] is a high-altitude butterfly found in the Rocky Mountains throughout the United States and Canada. It is a member of the snow Apollo genus ( Parnassius ) of the swallowtail family ( Papilionidae ).
Possibly the original butter-fly. [6] A male brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni) in flight.The Oxford English Dictionary derives the word straightforwardly from Old English butorflēoge, butter-fly; similar names in Old Dutch and Old High German show that the name is ancient, but modern Dutch and German use different words (vlinder and Schmetterling) and the common name often varies substantially ...