Thursday 11 August 2011

Two Common Blues

Common Blue butterflies, Polyommatus icarus. Male.  Hutchinson's Bank, 2 August 2011.
Common Blue butterflies, Polyommatus icarus. Male.  Hutchinson's Bank, 2 August 2011.
The top of its wings are a pleasing blue; you can just see the colour peeping over the near wingtips. The undersides have a pattern which is similar to several related species.

1 comment:

  1. I stopped to think: had I ever seen two butterflies of exactly the same type following each other in that way? A great photo, in any case. Is that any special kind of grass?

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