Monarch, Old World swallowtail, common blue, red admiral, painted lady, European peacock, large white, orange-tip, small tortoiseshell and mourning cloak. Compare visible wing patterns in documented photographs. An editorial selection, not a beauty or rarity ranking. Visuals are real Wikimedia Commons photographs, not AI-generated images. Narration is synthesized with Edge TTS. Photographs are resized and fitted to a portrait frame; derived images retain their source licenses. Monarch: Kenneth Dwain Harrelson; CC BY-SA 3.0; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monarch_In_May.jpg Old World swallowtail: Entomolo; CC BY-SA 4.0; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PapilioMachaon2016_001.JPG Common blue: Charles J. Sharp; CC BY-SA 4.0; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Common_blue_%28Polyommatus_icarus%29_male_Turna.jpg Red admiral: Christian Fischer; CC BY-SA 4.0; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VanessaAtalanta_Closeup.jpg Painted lady: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT; CC BY 3.0; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:0_Belle-dame_%28Vanessa_cardui%29_-_Echinacea_purpurea_-_Havr%C3%A9_%283%29.jpg European peacock: Charles J. Sharp; CC BY-SA 3.0; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peacock_butterfly_%28inachis_io%29_2.jpg Large white: S Sepp; CC BY-SA 3.0; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Large_white_spread_wings.jpg Orange-tip: Charles J. Sharp; CC BY-SA 4.0; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orange_tip_%28Anthocharis_cardamines%29_male_Geiranger.jpg Small tortoiseshell: Jörg Hempel; CC BY-SA 3.0 de; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aglais_urticae_LC0310.jpg Mourning cloak: Pavel Kirillov from St.Petersburg, Russia; CC BY-SA 2.0; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Mourning_Cloak_%2823369139485%29.jpg