common blue
polyommatus icarus latin

The behaviour is also different - unlike Common Blues, they rarely fly out over large stretches of water.

The Common Blue also has an additional black spot at the base of the underside forewing.

Example 2 is a common blues lick descending from high A down to A two octaves lower.

Other butterflies found here include Small Copper and Common Blue.

For the lady - accompanied by red admirals, peacocks and common blues - was fluttering her wings in the new butterfly centre.

The Common Blue butterfly is recorded.

The commoner Blue Morphos are reared 'en masse' in commercial breeding programmes.

Most easily confused with the Common Blue, it is generally slightly smaller and in the male the blue is a darker shade.

Banded Demoiselle and Common Blue Damselfly have been recorded at the site.

The Common Blue Damselfly has only one small black stripe there, while all other blue damselflies have two.

The Common Blue Meanies: These, it seems, are a sub-species of their Chief's origin.

Recorded are Common Blue, Small Copper and Marbled White butterflies.

Invertebrates found at the site include butterflies such as Gatekeeper, Small Tortoiseshell and Common Blue.

Polyommatus icarus (Common Blue)

This common Damselfly looks very like a Common Blue Damselfly, but a close look can distinguish the two.

Charaxes tiridates, the Common Blue Charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family.

The butterfly has been compared to the Common Blue, and the Grecian Helena subspecies which has orange markings.

The Common Blue Damselfly (Enallagma cyathigerum) is a European damselfly.

Meadow browns, common blues and small coppers sipped appreciatively at nectar from creamy honeysuckle, white bramble and red clover.

Traditional management for hay production followed by winter grazing has maintained a herb-rich sward and supports the Common Blue and Meadow Brown.

Butterflies recorded include Common Blue, Small Copper, Ringlet and Small Heath.

Common Blue Apollo Parnassius hardwickii is a high altitude butterfly which is found in South Asia.

Segments three to five are blue with broader black terminal bands, lacking the forward-pointing projection the upper surface which adult male Common Blue Damselfly has.

It also commemorates another common blues theme, life on the banks of a moody river bank, a theme heard in Charlie Patton's "High Water Everywhere."

Butterflies that may be seen include The Wall, Orange Tip, Dingy Skipper and the Common Blue.

Teän, Isles of Scilly: the site of Ford's Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus) population study.

The Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus) is a small butterfly in the family Lycaenidae, widespread over much of the Palaearctic and recently introduced in eastern Canada.

Typical meadow butterflies include for Meadow Brown Maniola jurtina, Common Blue Polyommatus icarus, Small Heath Coenonympha pamphilus, and the Marsh Fritillary Eurodryas aurinia.

Teän was the site of ground breaking mark and re-capture population studies of the Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus) butterfly by entomologists E. B. Ford and Prof W. H. Dowdeswell who camped on the island from 26 August to 8 September 1938.