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Argus-Bläuling - Geißklee-Bläuling - plebejus argus
Sony A9 with FE 100-400mm GM and FE 1.4 x Teleconverter
I've been hoping to photograph Silver-studded Blue on heather for some time. This was taken at Prees Heath near Whitchurch, Shropshire, which I gather is the last reliable place for this species in the Midlands. There were good numbers of butterflies when I arrived yesterday evening but they were beginning to roost and didn't seem very inclined to settle on the flowering heather. Eventually I found this one perched on the end of a stem against a clean background.
Argus-Bläuling - Geißklee-Bläuling - plebejus argus
Sony A9 with FE 100-400mm GM and FE 1.4 x Teleconverter
This species (Plebejus argus) is named for the shiny bluish or greenish scales in the centre of he spots around the edge of the wing. This is the female. Seen around heathland and in some coastal areas. This image was captured at Bosherston in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
Taken on a visit to Prees Heath Shropshire
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This male cardinal had two females pursuing him through a tree at Boyce Thompson Arboretum, What a stud!
Here's something to brighten yet another damp July morning. A lovely fresh male Silver-studded Blue perched on Bell Heather.
I have to say I'm finding this damp summer a little frustrating, I should be looking for Purple Emperors but instead its drizzling outside.
Male / upperwing.
Species: Plebeius argus.
This attractive little blue is most often associated with heathlands of southern England, where it can occur in very large numbers. However, in many places it is serious decline, mainly as a result of destruction of heaths and the shading out of the sparsely vegetated, sunny habitats it prefers.
Prees Heath Common, Shropshire.
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I was astonished to see this number of horses roaming around on the clifftops of North Cornwall. They seemed friendly enough and soon came over to see whether I had anything worth having...
It made me happy to see so many of one of my favourite butterflies this morning.
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Shot 65/100 x
I had the opportunity to head back to see family over the weekend and while there took a trip out to Yateley Common to see if I could find some Silver-studded Blues. Luckily I found a few however I think in a week or so the numbers will be far greater. Won't get much chance to get away now until early September so it was a real treat to find this smart female settling in for the night.
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Another one from the end of June. It had been some years since I actively went looking for butterflies to photograph and I had forgotten how hard it is to contort yourself into the correct position to try and get the whole wing in the plane of focus, maybe that is why I stopped doing it last time!
However for one of the UK's prettiest (and smallest) butterflies - it was worth it!
spent a very rewarding couple of days with Ross Hoddinott photographing Blue Studded Blue in Cornwall, fun and such informative work on their habitat, life cycle and found
A mating pair in a roadside meadow on a hot day in the Rodopi Mts in Northern Greece close to the Bulgarian border (0602). A common summer species in Southern Europe.
A wonderful backlit Silver-studded Blue this morning. Only saw 2 this morning, 1 yesterday, however these still feel early.
Always a delight to see.
A lovely silver studded blue butterfly amongst the ling heather. I've been lucky enough to come across quite af few "blues" of various types this year but this was my first images of the silver studded - great to see.
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he Silver-studded Blue gets its name from the light blue reflective scales found on the underside of most adults and which are quite visible when light reflects off them. As with many other species of blue, the males are blue while the female is a less-conspicuous brown. However, this butterfly is highly variable in appearance and, as stated in Dennis (1977), variation extends to "differences in the male upperside coloration, the width of the marginal border (wide in the New Forest, narrow in Devonshire) and the underside grey coloration (dull grey in the New Forest, silvery grey in east Suffolk); in the female to the development of the blue coloration and the orange lunules on the upperside, and on the underside to the coloration, the width and prominence of the medial white band".