Caption

Buckeye, Arizona - A ditch carries irrigation water to crops growing on a farm in the Arizona desert. Water availability is an increasing problem as drought affects the western U.S

Date

Jan 31, 2026

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Jim West

Reference

BRK26C28_278

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

86.1Mb (7.6Mb) / 22.4in x 14.9in / 6720 x 4480 (300dpi)

Keywords

Farmyard agriculture problem drought water meadow Butterfly Insect animal Arizona North America USA America wildlife cultivation diurnal butterfly Brush-footed butterfly American agricultural dry irrigation desert grow cutout rinse US-American growth ditch Southwest West plain-colored background wildlife photography cultivate natural environment flying insect exemptable Junonia coenia Irrigation water Desert water farm farming dryness waterfront lawn Lepidopteran United States of America fauna Growing Four-footed butterfly agrarian arid cut out watering moat plain-coloured background cultivating habitat pterygote insect clearable common buckeye cropping farm field United States cut-out irrigate Western single-colored background natural habitat buckeye US-America crop single-coloured background clipping cropping cropped exempt problems droughts waters meadows Butterflies Insects animals cultivations diurnal butterflies Brush-footed butterflies agriculturally irrigations deserts growing rinsing ditches Südwesten natural environments flying insects farms pterygote insects cropping farms irrigating exempted Grass field grows grown isolated detatched rinses south - west irrigates exposed exempt plate