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

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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.

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

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

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A Chalkhill Blue butterfly on the South downs of England

$The Common Blue is the most widespread blue butterfly in Britain and Ireland and is found in a variety of grassy habitats.\nThe brightly coloured males are conspicuous but females are more secretive. The colour of the upperwings of females varies from almost completely brown in southern England to predominantly blue in western Ireland and Scotland, but the colour is variable within local populations with some striking examples. Unlike Adonis and Chalkhill Blues, the dark veins do not extend into white fringes of wing margin$

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.

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

Everes argiades resting on the wild grass of Hotoke-numa

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.

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A Chalkhill Blue Butterfly pictured on a South Downs chalk hill in high summer

$Wings are bright blue. Females have black wing edges. Undersides pale blue with small black spots which distinguish them from Common Blue.\nThe Holly Blue is easily identified in early spring, as it emerges well before other blue butterflies. It tends to fly high around bushes and trees, whereas other grassland blues usually stay near ground level. It is much the commonest blue found in parks and gardens where it congregates around Holly (in spring) and Ivy (in late summer).$

$White wing butterfly, and the whole body has a white, gray hair perched on purple and white flower stalks\$

Bluebottle butterfly on tansy,Eifel,Germany.

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

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