#glaucopsyche

[lucidmercury]

Have I ever mentioned how much I despise pinning blues.

How is it that the scales on these wings are so fragile that static electricity rips them clean off. Were they even attached in the first place? How do they fly with wings that have the structural integrity of wet tissue paper? We may never know.

This is three specimens of Glaucopsyche lygdamus, two males one female, and one specimen of Celastrina neglecta, male.

[northwestnaturalist]

Glaucopsyche lygdamus "Silvery Blue" Lycaenidae

Glacier National Park, MT June 21, 2014 Robert Niese

As with many members of the Lycaenidae family (blues, coppers, and hairstreaks), the caterpillars of this species are tended by ants which provide the vulnerable larvae with protection in exchange for sugary "honeydew" which the caterpillars excrete from their backs. Check it out.

[trickypinetree]

The now-extinct Xerces blue (Glaucopsyche xerces) from the Lycaenidae family.

[missr3n3]

alternate spellings of glaucopsyche (by me and papit):

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