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New life begins

And so , as winter still reserve a chilling hairgrip on much of North America , natural spring has now arrived in the southwesterly American deserts . The annual carpeting of beautiful wildflower and their many butterfly companions are once again signal that a new year of living and ontogeny has get .

Butterflies of the American Deserts

The wooly devil (Ovicula biradiata), a flowering plant that appears soft and fuzzy.

Eye spots on the outer hindwings of a giant owl butterfly (Caligo idomeneus).

a woman with two children drawing water from a well in the desert

a close-up of a fly

An aerial photo showing a dozen large, star-shaped sand dunes in the Sahara desert

A male of the peacock spider species Maratus jactatus, lifts its leg as part of a mating dance.

A Painted Lady butterfly (Vanessa Cardui) perching on a flower.

Close up of a butterfly with blue wings and a black body

Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) on a milkweed plant flower in Ontario, Canada.

A depth scan through the wing scales of a pupa that has completed 83% of its metamorphosis. The left shows the amount of light reflected by the scales, while the phase information on the right shows finer gradations of how far the light traveled to the scales.

The Glanville fritillary butterfly, out of which the trio of stomach-bursting parasites emerge.

Parantica cleona, an Indonesian butterfly, contemplates its next meal.

An image comparing the relative sizes of our solar system�s known dwarf planets, including the newly discovered 2017 OF201

an illustration showing a large disk of material around a star

a person holds a GLP-1 injector

A man with light skin and dark hair and beard leans back in a wooden boat, rowing with oars into the sea

an MRI scan of a brain

A photograph of two of Colossal�s genetically engineered wolves as pups.

two ants on a branch lift part of a plant