Black-veined white butterfly (Aporia crataegi) feeding from Pannonic thistle (Cirsium pannonicum), Julian Alps, Slovenia, Europe

Marbled white butterfly (Melanargia galathea) foraging on spear thistle (Cirsium vulgare), Marlborough Downs, Wiltshire, England, United Kingodm, Europe

Woolly Thistle (Cirsium eriophorum). Sark British Channel Islands, UK

Black-chinned Hummingbird (Archilochus alexandri), females feeding on Texas thistle (Cirsium texanum), Sinton, Corpus Christi, Coastal Bend, Texas, USA

Honey bee (Apis), in flight, with a Waldstein's Thistle (Cirsium waldsteinii)

Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui), feeding on a Creeping Thistle (Cirsium arvense), Biosphaerengebiet Schwaebische Alb biosphere reserve, Swabian Alb, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris), male feeding on Texas Thistle (Cirsium texanum), Sinton, Corpus Christi, Coastal Bend, Texas, USA

Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris), male feeding on Texas Thistle (Cirsium texanum), Corpus Christi, Coastal Bend, Texas, USA

Plants, Flowers, Thistle, Bee on purple coloured Thistle.

Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) landing on a thistle (Cirsium vulgare), England