Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Butterfly from Slimbridge


Help needed to identify this blue butterfly photographed at Slimbridge on Monday. Looking at images on the web, the nearest is the Large Blue (though my specimen appears a bit faded compared with the published photos). There were a lot of red ants in the meadow where I found this - discovered this when kneeling to photograph the butterflies.

The Large Blue is not listed for Slimbridge so I am puzzled.

Someone has suggested that it is a very faded Common Blue so better go with that.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It has been suggested that this is a very faded Common Blue