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Hi all

My front lawn suffers from being very free draining, probably because the builders buried the remains of the old house which our house is built on underneath the lawn. The grass is brown and only "weeds" do well.

So I was interested today when I spotted a blue on one of the weeds and went out to investigate. Sure enough it was a common blue, not only investigating but egg laying on the weed which has tiny yellow clover like flowers. I tracked one and brought it inside to check. Sure enough a tiny common blue egg was inside the flower. Marvellous, it's completely changed my outlook on the front lawn!

Question is can I rear this egg, and what do I need to keep the little fellas going should it hatch. Temperatures, +/- sunlight etc..

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Bill

PS - Is the foodplant in the attached photo Black Medick. It's a spreading weed, low to the ground with small (less than 5mm) flowers.

Rubbish lawn, shush Bill, I had two Common Blue egg laying on a customers lawn on Wednesday.

The mover misses the Black Medick flower, I would of thought it would suck up the egg, or later the Larvae, but I've had them there both broods, for 3 years now.

Regards Gruditch