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Blue ID please
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 1:54 pm
by sahikmet
Taken at Mill Hill Sussex. Is it a female Adonis blue?
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 3:24 pm
by Dave Mac
Hi, I'm sure one of the forum experts will give you a definitive answer shortly, but for what its worth I think that Adonis blues have dark grey banding across the white margins around the edges of the wings. I hope I'm wrong as Adonis pictures are hard to come by
Cheers
Dave
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 3:37 pm
by Padfield
I think this is a female common blue. As Dave Mac says, Adonis blues have prominent chequering in the white margin of both wings, while common blue has partial half-chequering. This insect has indistinct half-chequering on the hindwing and no chequering on the forewing.
Sorry!
Guy
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 3:52 pm
by Gruditch
Like this I took today
Gruditch
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 4:01 pm
by Padfield
Exactly!!
Guy
Adonis blue
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 4:28 pm
by sahikmet
Thanks to all of you for your help. Lovely picture Gruditch. L:ooking at the comments and the picture I presume my other one could be Adonis blue. The attached are of the same butterfly.
Cheers
Sezar
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 5:09 pm
by Gruditch
Yeah I'd say that one is a Adonis Sezar,
Gruditch
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 5:12 pm
by sahikmet
Thanks Gruditch
Cheers
Sezar
Gruditch wrote:Yeah I'd say that one is a Adonis Sezar,
Gruditch