Showing posts with label Blues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blues. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Spring azure

Celastrina laden
April 26, 2016
This pale blue beauty fluttering along elfin creek.

I read in 'The Butterflies of Canada';
'It hibernates as a pupa , with the adult emerging in early spring. 
The larvae feed on a wide variety of usually white-flowering trees and shrubs.'
And indeed close to where i spotted the butterfly, are high-bush cranberries (Viburnum) and red-osier dogwood (Cornus) and along the lake a little farther are blueberries (Vaccinium).

and April 24, 2017
blue china swamp, same place every time i went there for a few weeks.

Monday, July 13, 2015

Arctic Blue

Agriades gladon
In the alpine on our very own only true Yukon aster, Aster alpines
Dragon mountain, July 10 2015

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Northern Blue

Plebejus idas 
July 13,2014
towards Kusawa Lake

On the powerline close to home, June 16, 2015

in 2017, July 17 in my yard

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Greenish Blue




Plebejus  saepiolus amica
June 10 2014

silvery blue

Glaucopsyche lygdamus couperi
May 31 2014
May 22 2017
in the yard, a bright blue butterfly in flight.

Friday, July 18, 2014

a Blue

 A Blue
but which one?
June 15 2014
Mendenhall subd.