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Green summer background. A blue butterfly sits on a yellow spring dandelion in a meadow. Natural abstract background

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

Holly Blue Butterfly perched in sunshine on a leaf

An idyllic color image of a small common blue butterfly on top of a bright pink rose bud flower with a vibrant natural green background.

Butterfly on a green leaf in the garden,

Junonia atlites - Gray pansy, Asia, Monsanto Insectarium

$Green-veined white is a very common resident in the Netherlands. The species prefers more natural habitats than the other Whites. It mainly occurs in relative humid habitats, such as woodland edges, woodland clearings and grasslands, but also found at he edge of heathland and in gardens and parks. Cardamine pratensis and Alliaria petiola are mostly used as larval foodplants.\nThe species flies in three generations and hibernates as a pupa. Due to prolonged emergence from the pupa, the different generations overlap and butterflies can be seen almost continuously from the end of April until the beginning of September.\nDistribution: Throughout Europe.$

Butterflies on wildflowers in summer, Dolomites

Butterfly Zizina otis indica/Lesser Grass Blue sits on the brown dry leaf with green background

Cupido minimus, Lycaenidae. A small beautiful butterfly on a grass stalk close-up against a blurred background. SOFT OPTICAL EFFECT (lens)

macro shot of blue morpho butterfly with closed wings in panama.

Melanargia galathea, the marbled white sucking salts on a human hand.

a butterly is sitting on a plant in the garden

$close-up of pale grass blue butterfly \$

Celastrina argiolus is a common resident in the Netherlands. The species is distributed in a great part of Europe, except Scotland and Northern Scandinavia. It occurs in a variety of habitats, even in City centres. The larval food plants differ between the spring and summer generation. In Spring, the females often lay their eggs on Rhamnus frangula and Ilex aquifolium. In summer, they tend to use later flowering species like Hedera helix, Calluna vulgaris or Lythrum salicaria. Holly Blue flies in two generations from mid-April until end-August and hibernates as pupa. During the 20th century numbers probably remained stable.

little blue butterfly on a flower in the green nature

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

Butterfly on tree in nature. Sanur beach, Bali Island.

This is a picture taken Kumamoto, Japan.

Animal, Butterfly - Insect, Insect, Invertebrate, Hong Kong

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