David Element
Wildlife
Photography and Digital Video Images
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Butterflies 10 – Long-tailed Blues
LONG-TAILED BLUE BUTTERFLY Lampides boeticus
(m)
LONG-TAILED BLUE BUTTERFLY Lampides boeticus (f)
LONG-TAILED BLUE BUTTERFLY Lampides boeticus (f)
LONG-TAILED BLUE BUTTERFLY Lampides boeticus
(m)
LONG-TAILED BLUE BUTTERFLY Lampides boeticus (f)
LONG-TAILED BLUE BUTTERFLY Lampides boeticus (f) LONG-TAILED BLUE BUTTERFLY Lampides boeticus (f)
LONG-TAILED BLUE BUTTERFLY Lampides boeticus (f)
LONG-TAILED BLUE BUTTERFLY Lampides boeticus (f)
LONG-TAILED
BLUE BUTTERFLY Lampides
boeticus
(f)
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The Long-tailed Blue Butterfly Lampides boeticus is one of the most widely
distributed butterflies in the world. This attractive little species is an
occasional migrant to the UK in late summer (a favoured nectar source is the Broad-leaved Everlasting Pea Lathyrus latifolius living on chalk downlands
in the south of England) but it cannot survive British winters at any stage of
development and its presence is either as a consequence of natural migration or
by importation of ova, larvae or pupae in produce. However, if anthropogenic
climate change continues to cause global warming it may eventually become
possible for the butterfly to become established and it could be a potential future
colonist of the UK as there are suitable foodplants available. The female in
the final photograph appears to have laid an egg a short time beforehand. The
photographs were taken in France, Italy and Portugal.
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