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Polyommatus icarus
First common Blue male gathering nectar of flowers (buttercup and speedwell) in my wet meadow.
Polyommatus icarus
First common Blue male gathering nectar of flowers (buttercup and speedwell) in my wet meadow.
Polyommatus icarus
First common Blue male gathering nectar of flowers (buttercup and speedwell) in my wet meadow.
Polyommatus icarus
Common Blue male gathering nectar of a fielf eryngo, in a mountain grassland. Catalan Pyrenees, France.
Polyommatus icarus - Eristalis sp.
Common Blue male gathering nectar, in the company of an hoverfly, of a fielf eryngo, in a mountain grassland. Catalan Pyrenees, France.
Polyommatus icarus f. icarinus
Common blue male resting at the edge of a path. Plateau of Capcir, Pyrenees.
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 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 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
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
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
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.
