Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus)

Polyommatus icarus

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

Polyommatus icarus

Common Blue male gathering nectar of bird's-foot trefoil flowers in the Butterflies area of the Musée Promenade in Digne-les-Bains.

Polyommatus icarus

Common Blue male gathering nectar of bird's-foot trefoil flowers in the Butterflies area of the Musée Promenade in Digne-les-Bains.

Polyommatus icarus

Common Blue male gathering nectar of sainfoins flowers at the edge of a path near the ammonite slab of Digne-les-Bains.

Polyommatus icarus

Common Blue male gathering nectar of a Giant Scabious flower in black marls.

Polyommatus icarus

Common Blue female resting in a calcareous meadow.

Polyommatus icarus

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

Polyommatus icarus

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

Polyommatus icarus

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

Polyommatus icarus f. caerulea

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.

Polyommatus icarus f. caerulea

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.

Polyommatus icarus

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

Polyommatus icarus

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

Polyommatus icarus

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

Polyommatus icarus

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

Polyommatus icarus

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

Polyommatus icarus

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

Polyommatus icarus

Common Blue male resting on a leaf in a wet meadow.

Polyommatus icarus

Common Blue male gathering nectar of a cornflower in my garden.

Polyommatus icarus

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

Polyommatus icarus

Common Blue male resting on a sedge in a wet meadow.

Polyommatus icarus

Common Blue male resting in a meadow. Diois, France.

Polyommatus icarus

Common blue male gathering nectar of alfafa flowers. Pyrenees Orientales, France.

Polyommatus icarus

Common blue female resting on a faded viper's bugloss. Pyrenees Orientales, France.

Polyommatus icarus

Common blue female resting on a faded viper's bugloss. Pyrenees Orientales, France.

Polyommatus icarus

Common blue female resting on a faded viper's bugloss. Pyrenees Orientales, France.

Polyommatus icarus f. icarinus

A Common blue male not so common because it lacks an eye spot in the forewing cell. This ocelle is used to differentiate several Blue species, it can be difficult not to confuse this form with other species.

Polyommatus icarus f. icarinus

Polyommatus icarus

Common blue male exposing its wings in the sun, resting on a dewy apple mint in a wet meadow.

Polyommatus icarus

Common blue male exposing its wings in the sun, resting on a dewy apple mint in a wet meadow.

Polyommatus icarus

Common blue male exposing its wings in the sun, resting on a dewy apple mint in a wet meadow.

Polyommatus icarus

Common Blue male aberration. The series of postdical spots of the forewing has transformed into light traces and the cell spot misses. The spots of hindwind are also deformed and one is missing.

Polyommatus icarus

Common Blue male aberration. The series of postdical spots of the forewing has transformed into light traces and the cell spot misses. The spots of hindwind are also deformed and one is missing.