Showing posts with label family Lycaenidae. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family Lycaenidae. 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, May 11, 2015

Hoary Elfin

On the second lowest shorelin of Ancient Lake Champagne, cloes to mendenhall subdivision
May 11, 2015

Hoary Elfin
Callophrys polia
food plant ; kinnikinnick