Silver-studded Blue (Plebejus argus)

Venturing across the dunes at Perran Sands in Cornwall I saw hundreds of dainty silver-studds. It was amazing to see and I’m guessing there must be thousands there.

Update : 100,000 from someone’s estimated calculated count.

 

Here’s a stunning mating pair with the brown female looking similar to a Brown Argus.

 

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