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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies (excluding skippers) (Papilionoidea) » Blues, Coppers, Hairstreaks, Harvesters (Lycaenidae) » Blues (Polyommatinae) » Cupido » Western Tailed-Blue (Cupido amyntula)
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Blue Butterfly on unknown bloom - Cupido amyntula
Copyright © 2004 Maureen Zwier

Blue Butterfly on unknown bloom - Cupido amyntula
Wheaton, DuPage County, Illinois, USA
July 27, 2004
If anyone knows the type of bloom the butterfly is feeding on, that would be great!
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Contributed by Maureen Zwier on 5 February, 2008 - 3:43pm
Last updated 21 November, 2008 - 2:40am

Moved
Moved from Reakirt's Blue.
… David J. Ferguson, 21 November, 2008 - 2:40am login or register to post comments

Hemiargus (or Echinargus) isola
Moved from Butterflies.
… David J. Ferguson, 21 November, 2008 - 2:38am login or register to post comments

Looks like a lawn clover
maybe Alsike Clover, Trifolium hybridum??
… john and jane balaban, 5 February, 2008 - 5:20pm login or register to post comments

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