Sandi, gosh this is an incredible capture, colors, details...am on vacation in Naxos, Greece, but had to immediately let you know this is a favorite!!!!!!
Don't know the name of the butterfly either, Sandi. I know only that it's gathering with its proboscis (and enjoying?) the nectar of the Buddleia flowers. Great details in this wonderful macro/close-up, my friend.
Try to change what you can't accept, but accept what you can't change. Please CLICK HERE to see my journal! Feel free to save my images or to add them to your favorites.
My thanks to all who leave comments for my work and to those of you who like one enough to make it a favourite. To touch just one person that way makes each image worthwhile. . . . . . . . . .. . . . "The question is not what you look at, but what you see" ~ Marcel Proust