Short-tailed Blue (Cupido argiades)

Short-tailed Blue male resting on a blade of grass in a wet meadow.

Short-tailed Blue resting on a blade of grass in a wet meadow.

Furtive encounter between a common red soldier beetle and a Short-tailed Blue female posed in a calcareous grassland.

Short-tailed Blue female resting on a blade of grass in a calcareous meadow.

Short-tailed Blue resting on a blade of grass in a meadow. Limousin, France.

Short-tailed Blue resting on a blade of grass in a meadow. Limousin, France.

Short-tailed Blue gathering nectar of apple mint flowers in a wet meadow.

Short-tailed Blue resting on a blade of grass in a meadow.

Short-tailed Blue resting on a nettle leaf.

Short-tailed Blue resting on a nettle leaf.

Short-tailed Blue resting on a nettle leaf.