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Common blue

Polyommatus icarus

Description:

One of the blues I guess; sharing pasture with Grison fritillary (pic N° 2)...

Habitat:

Seen in a small valley which we baptized a "Valley of butterflies" - the grassland valley is really very small, not more than 100 at its longest side and completely surrounded by a broad-leaved forest, and edged by a small and very clean stream. When we visited, grasslands were covered in a multitude of butterflies, mainly fritillaries (and mainly Grison fritillary - coming soon). We counted at least 8 or 9 different species, plus a multitude of other insects (bees, various bumble-bees, syrphes, dragon & damselflies etc).

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Zlatan Celebic
Zlatan Celebic 5 years ago

gotcha - probably Common blue

Zlatan Celebic
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Zlatan Celebic

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Tromelin Island

Spotted on Aug 22, 2018
Submitted on Sep 3, 2018

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