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1 Species ID Suggestions

LarsKorb
LarsKorb 12 years ago
Holly Blue
Celastrina argiolus


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27 Comments (1–25)

Tweact
Tweact 12 years ago

Great colors!

mr.holmes.88
mr.holmes.88 12 years ago

so beautiful ...

The MnMs
The MnMs 12 years ago

Really beautiful contrast

nwelch101
nwelch101 12 years ago

The contrast between the light blue and tropical green makes a fantastic photo!

Ramzan
Ramzan 12 years ago

HemantKumar: Thanks for the link. The Male Common Blue from northern Norway is very close to what i have posted.

HemantKumar
HemantKumar 12 years ago

Miami Blue Butterfly+Hollyblue ....:D

LarsKorb
LarsKorb 12 years ago

haha....yea, looks like there are some varieties of Holly Blues... :) thx for the links

HemantKumar
HemantKumar 12 years ago

no sir i tried searching on line for this i think this is holly blue only n u r very much right
http://www.google.co.in/search?q=Holly+B...
regards :)

LarsKorb
LarsKorb 12 years ago

Hm...it's closer regarding the color, but not to other aspects ;)
e.g. the species that is shown in the link is pretty furry - while Ramzan's species is not (and as mine is not so much, too).
The link-picture also shows wings with a minimum of black tips - while Ramzan's shows large parts of dark (purple) and mine is showing gray/black tips...
(although the link-picture is of a stunning detail...did you take this one, Hemant?)

HemantKumar
HemantKumar 12 years ago

ur most welcome i thin u'll like this link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyommatus...
:)

Ramzan
Ramzan 12 years ago

HemantKumar : Many thanks ... in term of color, this is closer to mine compared with LarsKorb :)

Ramzan
Ramzan 12 years ago

Yes, couldn't agree more :) I think that the main reason we are here .... Thanks again

LarsKorb
LarsKorb 12 years ago

You're welcome, Ramzan - at the end we all just love nature, don't we?

Ramzan
Ramzan 12 years ago

LarsKorb: Just checked at yours ... so for sure its different thing. I'll still check my original photo. Many thanks for highlighting this ... soooo interesting my friend :)

LarsKorb
LarsKorb 12 years ago

maybe there are just some varieties of this species...as I said - no offend meant.

I just took your picture for the intension to send the tip to not enhance colors for everyone here - just in order to keep identifying not more difficult than it is already ;)....because i can imagine much rarer species that are not that easy to identify (like the blue holly), even if the color appears unusual...

Ramzan
Ramzan 12 years ago

LarsKorb: Understand your sincere intention and i'm ok with that. I took the photo of this beautiful creature about a year ago if my memory serve me well, the color is genuine. But i'll recheck the the original photo and reconfirm the color. But as far as i can remember, i didn't change anything. Will let you know friend :)

LarsKorb
LarsKorb 12 years ago

well... :) it's not meant offensive...unreal colors just make it hard to identify.
and if yourpicture shows the original colors...than my picture shows probably the most frustrated Holly Blue on this planet ;)
compare our pictures (mine is very close to the colors how they appeared in reality): http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/602...

Ramzan
Ramzan 12 years ago

HemantKumar, GinaCatindoy, SarahHiteWhitt, Janice & NayNay: Many thanks for the lovely comments. Truly appreciated!

Ramzan
Ramzan 12 years ago

LarsKorb: Thanks for the ID suggestion. Really appreciate that

Ramzan
Ramzan 12 years ago

LarsKorb: Thanks for the comment. But i did not manipulate anything except for brightness and sharpness. The color of the edges of the wings are genuinely purple. But still i stand to be corrected :)

LarsKorb
LarsKorb 12 years ago

please...you should not overkill the colors and contrasts with the pictures, friends.
makes it much harder to identify unknown spottings.
this one for example has a much, much paler blue wings than the shot suggests.
and the edges of the wings are not purple but gray/black...

HemantKumar
HemantKumar 12 years ago

beautiful shot sir

Gina9210
Gina9210 12 years ago

Beautiful!!

SarahWhitt
SarahWhitt 12 years ago

Beautiful!!!

Ramzan
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Kangar, Perlis, Malaysia

Spotted on Nov 5, 2010
Submitted on May 5, 2011

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