Common Blue Question

andy brown · Post by **andy brown** » Thu Oct 10, 2013 7:03 am

Hi,

Just been going through my old pictures and came across this one, is it just normal variation for this Common Blue Female to have such a pronounced dark Band and so few Orange spots (sorry best pic I have).

Thanks

Andy

Post by **Padfield** » Thu Oct 10, 2013 7:13 am

No - she's beyond the range of normal variation.

She very much resembles this unnamed aberration in the Cockayne Collection:

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/ ... xonID=9467

Guy

andy brown · Post by **andy brown** » Thu Oct 10, 2013 1:11 pm

Thanks for that Guy I can confidently put that in my Aberrant Common Blue folder

Cheers

Andy

maverick · Post by **maverick** » Thu Oct 10, 2013 7:46 pm

I too have a common blue question (or is it ? )
i was taking pictures of common blues on a North Wales beach when i got only one picture of this little fella
same size as the common blues
not the best of pictures either but being new to photography and butterflies no doubt this is going to be a common question from me

Post by **Pete Eeles** » Thu Oct 10, 2013 7:51 pm

Definitely a female Common Blue which, as we can see from this page, are quite variable in terms of the amount of blue scaling.

Cheers,

- Pete

maverick · Post by **maverick** » Thu Oct 10, 2013 8:08 pm

i take it that these are two males then?????

Trev Sawyer · Post by **Trev Sawyer** » Thu Oct 10, 2013 8:17 pm

Absolutely correct!

Trev

maverick · Post by **maverick** » Tue Oct 15, 2013 7:56 pm

ive got a lot to learn

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