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Males have beautiful, brilliant sky-blue wings, while the females are brown. A characteristic butterfly of unimproved chalk downland in southern England.
This beautiful butterfly is one of the most characteristic species of southern chalk downland, where it flies low over shortly grazed turf.
The males have brilliant sky-blue wings, while the females are brown and far less conspicuous. Both sexes have distinctive black lines that enter or cross the white fringes to the wings. Despite its restricted distribution, the butterfly can be seen in many hundreds on good sites.
It has undergone a major decline through its entire range, but has recently re-expanded in some regions.
I'll try to upload more pictures this year, after a quiet 2019 on Flickr. This one shows a female Adonis Blue on a Buttercup.
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Probably my last visit of the season to Denbies,as the National trust has moved the Galloway cattle onto the hillside, and the vegetation is looking a bit squashed now....apart from their 'presents' deposited on the ground(if you know what I mean ;o) ).
So I thought I'd post a couple of shots of this beautiful Adonis...the hillside has given me a lot of enjoyment this year...grass was taller than ever....Blues not so common.....butterflies as fickle as ever....encounter with biting gypsy dogs...no so enjoyable...hospital....but all in all great stuff.
Thanks to everyone who's looked....faved and sometimes commented.
Martin Down, Hampshire
Adonis Blue [Polyommatus bellargus]
LEPIDOPTERA > Papilionoidea (Butterflies) >
Lycaenidae (Hairstreaks, Coppers and Blues) >
Polyommatinae (Blues) > Polyommatini
He arrived Tuesday afternoon. He's a WOW. I find it funny that he looks like a male doll from IT (HOMME). It's also interesting that he is released the same way IT introduced and released Francisco and Pierre. Fashion Dolls in underwear and slippers.