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A Red-Banded Hairstreak butterfly (Calycopis cecrops) feeding from purple vetch wildflowers during Springtime in Houston, TX. These tiny butterflies are only found in the South Eastern USA.

Bluebottle butterfly on tansy,Eifel,Germany.

This beautiful and elegant butterfly is a change from a pretty scary caterpillar, it takes a few days to process a caterpillar that was initially so frightening into a beautiful butterfly, that is the power of God that is extraordinary.

$The small blue (Cupido minimus) is a Palearctic butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. Despite its common name, it is not particularly blue. The male has some bluish suffusion at the base of its upper wings but is mostly dark brown like the female. The species can live in colonies of up to several hundred and in its caterpillar stage is cannibalistic.\nDescription:\nSmall blue males are dark brown with a scattering of bright blue scales that speckle their wings. Females lack this blue speckling. Both males and females exhibit the characteristic silver underside with black spots. The male has a bluish tint at the base of its wings similar to the upper side. Their wingspan can fall anywhere from 16-27mm, but males tend to be the smaller sex.\nHabitat:\nC. minimus live in calcareous grasslands, abandoned quarries, railway and embankments and woodland edges and clearings.\nFood plants:\nRecorded larval food plants are Oxytropis campestris, Astragalus alpinus, Lotus corniculatus, Anthyllis vulneraria, Melilotus, Coronilla, Medicago, Anthyllis vulneraria, Astragalus glycyphyllos and Astragalus cicer. \nIn the UK, small blues lay their eggs, live, and feed exclusively on the kidney vetch. While females obtain all of their nutrients from plants, males will extract salts and minerals from carrion, dung, and mud puddles. \nFlying season:\nThe adult small blue has a lifespan of about three months. In the southern United Kingdom, there are two broods a summer. One is in June, and the other in August with the second brood being smaller. However, in the northern part of the United Kingdom, only the June brood is present. The small blue is diurnal, and often lives in colonies. While most colonies consist of a few dozen individuals, colonies of several hundred have been recorded. \nDistribution:\nC. minimus is found troughout Europe (source Wikipedia).\n\nThis Picture is made during a long weekend in the Eifel (Germany) in June 2019.$

The Plain Cupid ( Chilades pandava ) butterfly seeking nectar on flower with natural green leaf in background , Black spot with blue with purple and orange color eye pattern on insect wing

Short-tailed blue (Tsubameshijimicho, Everes argiades) butterfly on the Panicled Tick-Trefoil purple flower branch.

A small, yet strikingly beautiful blue butterfly species in British Columbia.

A pigeon butterfly with blue wings sits on a flower.

Silver-studded Blue Butterfly (Plebejus argus) perched on daisy in Swiss Alps

A solitary Gray Hairstreak alights on a stalk of grass on a background of thick foliage

Spotted Lanternfly on Blue Switchgrass covered with dew at dawn.

image of an endangered karner blue butterfly at Crex Meadows Wildlife Area

A Silvery blue butterfly pauses on a leaf in the Canadian boreal forest.

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

blue betterfly on a flower -Polyommatus icarus

$African Dusky Flycatcher.\nThe African dusky flycatcher (Muscicapa adusta), also known as the dusky-brown flycatcher or dusky alseonax, is a small passerine bird of the Old World flycatcher family, Muscicapidae. It is a resident breeder in Africa from Nigeria, the Central African Republic, Rwanda, South Sudan and Ethiopia south to South Africa. It is very common in its woodland habitat, which includes riverine forests, evergreen forest edges and clearings, especially near water bodies such as lakes, dams and streams, and well-wooded suburban gardens.$

Short-tailed Blue Gossamer-winged Butterfly on the stem of hay grass

A holly blue butterfly Celastrina argiolus feeding. The holly blue has pale silver-blue wings spotted with pale ivory dots.

Macro image of a blue damselfly, native to North America, facing the camera. Details and ommatidia are clear.

Curious tufted titmouse in white spruce tree near bird feeder in Connecticut, spring

Everes argiades resting on the wild grass of Hotoke-numa

A Chalkhill Blue butterfly on the South downs of England

Jamides alecto, the metallic cerulean, is a small butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm but which crosses the Wallace line into the Australasian realm (Celebes). It belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.

An adult Diuca Finch (Diuca diuca) perches on the ground near Santiago in central Chile.

Colorful macro photograph of a male Eastern-Tailed Blue Butterfly perched on a White Clover flower.

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