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Common Blue Butterfly (male), Tulloch Moor
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Nethybridge and Dulnain Bridge
A male Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus) butterfly at Tulloch Moor. In southern parts of the UK common blues have two broods of young, usually in May and August, whereas in Scotland, they only have one brood that emerges in July. Photo taken by David Palmar
22 July 2023
Common Blue Butterfly (male), Tulloch Moor
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Nethybridge and Dulnain Bridge
A male Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus) butterfly at Tulloch Moor. Common Blue butterflies fly throughout the summer between April and October and are the most widespread of the blue butterflies. Photo taken by David Palmar
22 July 2023
Common Blue Butterfly (male), Tulloch Moor
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Nethybridge and Dulnain Bridge
A male Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus) butterfly at Tulloch Moor. Common Blue butterflies fly throughout the summer between April and October and are the most widespread of the blue butterflies. Photo taken by David Palmar
22 July 2023
Common Blue Butterfly (male), Tulloch Moor
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Nethybridge and Dulnain Bridge
A male Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus) butterfly can be seen here on Bell heather (Erica cinerea). Photo taken at Tulloch Moor by David Palmar
22 July 2023
Holly Blue, East Linton
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East Lothian
A Holly Blue (Celastrina argiolus), a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae that is commonly found in England and Wales, but less common in Scotland. Taken near Preston Mill in East Linton, East Lothian.
12 August 2023
Holly Blue, East Linton
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East Lothian
A Holly Blue (Celastrina argiolus), from family Lycaenidae, resting on some Common Ivy (Hedera helix) - family Araliaceae - near Preston Mill, East Linton, East Lothian
12 August 2023
Male Holly Blue, Oxfordshire
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Oxfordshire and Berkshire
Male Holly Blue (Celastrina argiolus), taken at Cholsey Meadows, Oxfordshire by David Palmar. Blues often fold their wngs when landing, to camouflage them better. The male Holly Blue is paler than the female.
14 May 2023
Male Holly Blue, Oxfordshire
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Oxfordshire and Berkshire
Male Holly Blue (Celastrina argiolus), taken at Cholsey Meadows, Oxfordshire by David Palmar. Blues often fold their wngs when landing, to camouflage them better. The male Holly Blue is paler than the female.
14 May 2023
Common Blue butterfly, Leadburn Community Woodland
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Midlothian - Leadburn Community Woodland
Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus) butterfly, taken by David Palmar at Leadburn Community Woodland, Penicuik
25 June 2022
Small Copper on Devil's Bit Scabious, Ardmore Point
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Argyllshire - Ardmore, Helensburgh, Garelochhead and Rosneath
Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas) on Devil's Bit Scabious (Succisa pratensis), taken by David Palmar at Ardmore Point, Argyllshire
