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Is this a Long-Tailed Blue?

Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 1:27 pm
by Martin
Lampides boeticus

Image

Martin.

PS - appologies for the poor photo.

Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 1:31 pm
by Pete Eeles
Hi Martin,

I believe this to be a Geranium Bronze (Cacyreus marshalli). See http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/species. ... m%20Bronze.

Cheers,

- Pete

Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 3:23 pm
by Martin
Therev are lots of Geranium Bronzes here, but for some reason thought this on was different. Oh well...I'll just have to keep looking :D

Martin.

Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 9:52 am
by Guest
If you want to see LT blue in S Spain, just look for anything Pea-like. They like peas.

Danny