French trip - 17th to 24th June

[owen figgis]

Here's another one. It has a little bit of blue on the edges of the hind wings.

Owen

[owen figgis]

What colour were the uppersides of that butterfly? The only alternative to mazarine is little blue (which can be surprisingly big in the mountains). That is a male. If the ups were dark it is little blue. If the ups were blue it is mazarine. It is (almost certainly) not Osiris.

I think it was blue. It was my first day and I had found this incredible meadow alive with butterflies and I was unable to slow down and acually study what was there. Instead I took loads of rubbish photos which were very difficult to sort out later.

Owen

[Padfield]

That appears to be a female common blue. I can't separate female common blue from female Chapman's from the upperside alone, but the underside you showed on the last page was that of a common blue.

Guy

EDIT: That reply was in answer to the first post on this page. In answer to the second(which seemed to cross in the post) , I think that confirms mazarine blue.