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Silvery Blue butterfly (Glaucopsyche lygdamus) on a Lupine leaf
Group of blue butterflies (Lycaenidae)
Beautiful blue butterfly on a green background. Golubyanka icarus. Beauty is in nature.
A Silvery Blue Butterfly - Glaucopsyche lygdamus - on a purple wild flower with green background. Wings are up for easy identification. In the Willamette Valley of Oregon.
Butterfly
(Plebejus anna) The Anna's Blue butterfly is a common species in the Cascade Range. The butterfly is univoltine, meaning it has one brood per year. In the Fall the butterfly lays its eggs in lupine to overwinter. The caterpillar eats the Spring away on lupines, Torrey peas, and trefoil. In completes metamorphosis in the summer to start the cycle again. The adults feed on the nectar of the host plants of the larvae. These butterflies are usually found above 3000 feet in elevation.
About the size of a fingernail, a tiny, Western pygmy blue butterfly enjoys Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge in Denver, Colorado.
Short-tailed Blue butterfly (Everes argiades) adult male at rest with wings open\n\nPoland May
Group of blue butterflies (Lycaenidae)
One of the smallest butterfly in Europe in natural habitat
A Chalkhill Blue butterfly on the South downs of England
butterfly on blade of grass
A Silvery blue butterfly pauses on a leaf in the Canadian boreal forest.
The holly blue butterfly (Celastrina argiolus) on a grass steam - close-up
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.
Two Mariposa Copper (Lycaena mariposa) butterflies in the Yosemite National Park, California.
The Common Blue is the most widespread blue butterfly in Britain and Ireland and is found in a variety of grassy habitats.\nThe brightly coloured males are conspicuous but females are more secretive. The colour of the upperwings of females varies from almost completely brown in southern England to predominantly blue in western Ireland and Scotland, but the colour is variable within local populations with some striking examples. Unlike Adonis and Chalkhill Blues, the dark veins do not extend into white fringes of wing margin
Beautiful blue butterfly on a flower. Golubyanka. Beauty is in nature.
A Silvery Blue Butterfly - Glaucopsyche lygdamus - with green background. Wings are open and taken from above. In the Willamette Valley of Oregon. Edited.
Butterfly Celastrina ladon drinking between the river stones in the Encantada ravine of Beniarrés, Spain
Butterfly on Sambucus (Elder or Elderberry) in the morning Light
Close-up of a blue butterfly resting on the ground with a blurred background.
Silver-studded Blue Butterfly (Plebejus argus) perched on daisy in Swiss Alps
Common Blue or Polyommatus icarus, Small blue butterfly
In Termessos National Park\nhibiscus flower and (Latin) Lampides boeticus and hibiscus flower (Latin) Althaea cannabina
Close-up of a common blue butterfly collecting nectar from a white flower with a grass background
Holly Blue Butterfly
butterfly on purple flower bloom, macro. beautiful backgroun.
Wings are bright blue. Females have black wing edges. Undersides pale blue with small black spots which distinguish them from Common Blue.\nThe Holly Blue is easily identified in early spring, as it emerges well before other blue butterflies. It tends to fly high around bushes and trees, whereas other grassland blues usually stay near ground level. It is much the commonest blue found in parks and gardens where it congregates around Holly (in spring) and Ivy (in late summer).
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