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The Flittering Flowers :-)

Common blue

(Polyommatus icarus)(=Polyommatus abdon)(= Lycaena icarus) – Голубянка Икар – male

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The name of the small shining blue btf was taken from the Greece antique mythology too.

 

Icarus was a youth, who wanted to fly up closely to Sun, using homemade wings… despite an interdiction of the father Gedal.

These wings have been made of the bird's feathers fastened by wax.

Wax was melting from solar heat… wings collapsed… Icarus has fallen to the ground and died…

A sad story…

 

Resume:

Children, do as your parents tell you! They not always talk nonsense! :D

 

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Uploaded on April 6, 2009
Taken on June 27, 2008