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Common Blue

Common Blue
Polyommatus icarus

Very common in grassy places locally. May to September. Males a vivid blue.
Females a sooty brown, lightly dusted with a hint of blue.

Generations.    1-2.

Foodplants.      Birdsfoot trefoil.

Larva.                  Wood-louse shaped. Brighgt green with a dark stripe and two
                             whitish stripes along the sides. Spiracles white.

Pupa.                  Head ochre, body green and wings ochre: covered with a
                             white network and tiny bristles.

Winters as.        A larva.