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Ein kühles Plätzchen für meinen Adonis, während der momentanen Hitze.
Hier noch ein Foto als junger kleiner Kater, da war noch Platz im Waschbecken ;-)
National Nature Reserve Martin Down, UK
Such a striking and unmissable colour as this male Adonis Blue feeds.
Gormán Coiteann [IRL]
Azuré de la bugrane [F]
Hauhechel Bläuling [D]
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Tribe: Polyommatini
Genus: Polyommatus
Species: P. icarus
Meadows, Grasslands, Quarries.
Seen in suitable habitats throughout Ireland.
Bird's foot trefoil.
30-35mm (1.09 inches)
[Small Tortoiseshell 50mm]
The Common Blue is the most colourful of the Blues found in Ireland. The male is a very attractive shiny blue, whereas the female is mainly brown.
The underside is very decorative with orange crescents and black spots.
Appearance, behaviour, and distribution
Male uppersides are an iridescent lilac blue with a thin black border. Females are brown above with a row of red spots along the edges and usually some blue at the base of the wings; the upperside may be mostly blue, especially in Ireland and Scotland, but it always has red spots. Undersides have a greyish ground colour in the males and a more brownish in the females. Both sexes have a row of red spots along the edge of the hindwings and extending onto the forewings, though they are generally fainter there, particularly in the males, where they are sometimes missing altogether. There are about a dozen black-centered white spots on the hindwings, nine on the forewings. These usually include one in the middle of the forewing cell, absent in Chapman's and Escher's blues.[2] The white fringe on the outer edge of the wings is not crossed with black lines, as it is in the Chalkhill and Adonis blues.
The common blue is Britain's (and probably Europe's) most common and most widespread blue, found as far north as Orkney and on most of the Outer Hebrides. Males are often very obvious as they defend territories against rivals and search out the more reclusive females. A range of grassland habitats are used: meadows, coastal dunes, woodland clearings, and also many man-made habitats, anywhere their food plants are found.
Recently, this butterfly was discovered in Mirabel, Quebec, Canada by Ara Sarafian, an amateur entomologist who observed the butterfly from 2005 to 2008. He contacted the Canadian National Collection of Insects in Ottawa where the butterfly was identified as P. icarus, a new alien butterfly to Canada and to North America. The butterfly seems to be well established and is extending its range from year to year.[1]
Lifecycle and food plants
The main food plant on most sites is Bird's foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus). Others used include black medick Medicago lupulina, common restharrow (Ononis repens), white clover (Trifolium repens), wild thyme Thymus serpyllum, and lesser trefoil (Trifolium dubium). Eggs are laid singly on young shoots of the food plant.
The caterpillar is small, pale green with yellow stripes and, as usual with lycid larvae, rather slug-like. Hibernation occurs as a half grown larvae. They are attractive to ants, but not as much as some other species of blues. The chrysalis is olive green/brown and formed on the ground, where it is attended by ants, which will often take it into their nests. The larva creates a substance called honeydew, which the ants eat while the butterfly lives in the ant hill. In the south of Britain there are two broods a year, flying in May and June and again in August and September. Northern England has one brood, flying between June and September. In a year with a long warm season, there is sometimes a partial third brood in the south flying into October.
Victoria Arduino has created a coffee machine dedicated to those who love the tradition of coffee and the modernity of design. It is called ADONIS, like the famous mythological figure, the symbol of youth and beauty. The distinctive feature of Adonis is its stunning and timeless beauty, And when a splendid design is used with the very latest technology, the result is a machine with extraction characteristics that offer incomparable taste, smell and touch sensations.
Kempton Park, 25 Februay 2017. The Adonis Juvenile Hurdle (2m). Evening Hush (Adam Wedge) & the grey Master Blueyes (Wayne Hutchinson) - Charli Parcs and Barry Geraghty falling on the far side
福寿草
In Japan, we call this flower "Fukujusou", which means celebrating happy new year (in lunar calendar). One of the most popular early spring flowers. It tells us that spring is aproaching!
Kempton Park, 25 Februay 2017. The Adonis Juvenile Hurdle (2m). Evening Hush (Adam Wedge) & the grey Master Blueyes (Wayne Hutchinson) - Charli Parcs and Barry Geraghty falling on the far side