Blues Butterflies (Polyommatinae)

First common Blue male gathering nectar of flowers (buttercup and speedwell) in my wet meadow.

Adonis blue resting on a path.

Adonis blue resting on a path.

Provençal Short-tailed Blue laying its eggs on a black medick flowers in a small Pyrenean valley. Aude, France.

Provençal Short-tailed Blue gathering nectar of a black medick flowers in a small Pyrenean valley. Aude, France.

Provençal Short-tailed Blue watering at the edge of a small stream in a Pyrenean valley. Aude, France.

Provençal Short-tailed Blue gathering nectar of a yellow restharrow flower in a small Pyrenean valley. Aude, France.

Adonis Blue male resting in a small Pyrenean valley. Aude, France.

Adonis Blue male resting in a small Pyrenean valley. Aude, France.

Holly Blue gathering nectar of a speedwell flower in my garden.

Holly Blue gathering nectar of a speedwell flower in my garden.

Amanda's Blue still asleep in an old Pyrenean quarry.

Small Blue resting in an old career

Amanda's Blue resting near a Pyrenean road.

Common blue male resting at the edge of a path.

Common blue male resting at the edge of a path.

Common Blue male resting on a apple mint in a wet meadow.

Common Blue male resting in a mountain grassland. Catalan Pyrenees, France.

Escher's Blue male resting on a stonecrop in bloom. Catalan Pyrenees, France.

Escher's Blue female resting in a meadow. Catalan Pyrenees, France.

Chalkhill Blue (Lysandra hispana ou coridon) male resting in a meadow.Catalan Pyrenees, France.

Chalkhill Blue (Lysandra hispana ou coridon) male resting in a meadow.Catalan Pyrenees, France.

Common Blue male gathering nectar of a fielf eryngo, in a mountain grassland. Catalan Pyrenees, France.

Common Blue male gathering nectar, in the company of an hoverfly, of a fielf eryngo, in a mountain grassland. Catalan Pyrenees, France.

Common Blue male resting on a apple mint in a wet meadow.

Mazarine Blue drinking in a wet meadow.

Common Blue male resting in a wet meadow.

Common Blue male gathering nectar of a common starwort flower in a wet meadow.

Common Blue male resting on a apple mint in a wet meadow.

It's the blue suffusion on the top of the wings that sets it apart from other females who are brown. She gathering nectar of potentilla and mint flowers in my wet meadow.

It's the blue suffusion on the top of the wings that sets it apart from other females who are brown. She gathering nectar of potentilla and mint flowers in my wet meadow.

Common Blue paire mating on a nettle leaf in my garden.

Common Blue female resting on a apple mint in a wet meadow.

Common Blue male gathering nectar of a flower of marigold in my garden.

Common Blue male taking a sunbath on a flower of marigold in my garden.

Common Blue male resting on a zinnia flower in my garden.

Common Blue female resting in a calcareous meadow.

Common Blue female gathering nectar of a knapweed flower in a meadow.

Chalkhill Blue (Lysandra hispana ou coridon) male resting on a great scabious.

Adonis Blue male gathering nectar of a carline thistle in bloom in a meadow.

Adonis Blue male resting on alfafa in a meadow.

Female of Polyommatus bellargus, coridon ou hispana exposing its wings to the sun in a meadow of Diois.

Adonis Blue male resting on a brown knapweed.

Chalkhill Blue (Lysandra hispana ou coridon) male resting on a great scabious.