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Resting Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus)

A forest butterfly which is commonly sighted in the forest reserve of Singapore. Family : LycaenidaeSubfamily : Lycaeninaehttp://www.geocities.com/rainforest/vines/2382/lycaenidae/celeno.htm

The blue color of the Common Blue butterfly is less evident when its wings are closed, but a distinct blue hue does show up. The detailed patterns on the wings are a marvel of the artistry of nature. This photographe was taken in the midday sunshine in Southern Quebec in summertime.

A common blue butterfly in a meadow in close-up. The eye is in focus.

$Polyommatus icarus is a common resident in the Netherlands.\nHabitat: The species occurs in a variety of flower-rich places, irrespective of nutrient level, pH or humidity. habitats include waste ground, grasslands and roadside verges.\nFood plants: Several species of Fabaceae serve as larval food plant.\nFlight Season: Common Blue flies in two, sometimes three generations from mid-May until the end of August, and hibernates as a half-grown caterpillar.\nDistribution: A common species in a great part of Europe, except the north of Scandinavia.\n\nThis Picture is made during a Vacation in Bulgaria in May 2018.$

macro shot of blue butterfly with soft green yellow background

Common Blue or Polyommatus icarus, Small blue butterfly

$Achillea millefolium, commonly known as White Yarrow or Common Yarrow, is a graceful perennial flower that produces an abundance of huge, flat clusters, packed with creamy-white flowers. They are born on tall stems atop an aromatic, green, fern-like foliage. Both flowers and foliage are attractive and long lasting, making White Yarrow a wonderful garden plant and a great choice for prairie or meadow plantings.\nIt is a rhizomatous, spreading, upright to mat-forming. Cultivars extend the range of flower colors to include pink, red, cream, yellow and bicolor pastels.$

The Anthocharis cardamines butterfly is a species of diurnal butterfly from the Pieridae family. Easy to recognize, Gdansk, Poland, Pomeranian Voivodeship

A Small white butterfly. Latin pieris rapae settled on a yellow wild flower. differential focus gives a nice blurred background for copy space.

Southern White Admiral butterflies (Limenitis reducta) viewed on top

$Satyrium acaciae, the sloe hairstreak, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. \n\nDescription from Seitz:\nT. acaciae F. Smaller than true ilicis, hardly so large as esculi. Above uniformly dark brown, the male bearing 1-3, the female 2-5 small red anal spots. The line of white bars on the underside is straighter, being somewhat curved outward at the anal angle of the hindwing without forming a W. Male without scent-spot. \nLarva pale yellowish green or grass-green, with black head, two yellowish subdorsal lines and, further laterad, small pale oblique spots; in May adult on blackthorn, especially small bushes which grow on sunny slopes: the larva can be obtained by beating. The butterflies have very definite haunts which are widely dispersed throughout the distribution area and often of very limited extent ; they occur particularly on rocky slopes, with blackthorn hedges and exposed to the full force of the sun, in June, showing a preference for resting on Umbellifers. \nFlight Season:\nSatyrium acaciae has just one Generation and flies from June until July.\nDistribution:\nParticularly in Central Europe. From South France to Asia Minor and Transcaucasia. \nThe distribution of the sloe hairstreak ranges from 49° N in France and 51° N in Germany and Poland. It is absent from southern Italy, the Mediterranean islands, Portugal and Spain except for the Montes Universales and the north (source Wikipedia). \n\nThis Picture is made during a Vacation in Bulgaria in May 2018.$

Front view of a painted lady butterfly sucking on flowering origanum.

tiny blue butterfly feeding on the flower, Green-Underside Blue, Glaucopsyche alexis

Close up of a common blue butterfly in nature

A mail Fender's Blue Butterfly with green background. Wings are closed. This subspecies is only known to be in the Willamette Valley of Oregon.

$Polyommatus icarus is a common resident in the Netherlands.\nHabitat: The species occurs in a variety of flower-rich places, irrespective of nutrient level, pH or humidity. habitats include waste ground, grasslands and roadside verges.\nFood plants: Several species of Fabaceae serve as larval food plant.\nFlight Season: Common Blue flies in two, sometimes three generations from mid-May until the end of August, and hibernates as a half-grown caterpillar.\nDistribution: A common species in a great part of Europe, except the north of Scandinavia.\n\nThis Butterfly is one of the most common Blue Butterflies in the Netherlands.$

A common blue at rest with closed wings and underside visible

Hummingbird clearwing moth (Hemaris thysbe) hovering at butterfly bush (Buddleia davidii), with the focus on its spiraled, pollen-covered proboscis. Taken in a Connecticut flower garden, summer.

Faulbaum-Bläuling at food intake, Odenwald , Aschbach

Black swallowtail butterfly is well-known for its adaptability and wide distribution.

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