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  • English
    • gossamer-winged butterflies
    • Blues, Hairstreaks & Coppers
    • Gossamer-wing Butterflies
  • Scientific names
    • Lycaenidae

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Recent Observations

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What

Summer Azure Celastrina neglecta

Observer

james5

Date

May 25, 2012
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What

gray hairstreak Strymon melinus

Date

May 25, 2012

Description

Nectaring on....in open prairie. Too busy worrying about the butterfly and didn't make an id on the plant.

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Photos

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Date

May 25, 2012

Description

Nectaring on a Pynanthemum tenuifolium in open prairie. Pretty sure this is not the gray hairstreak.

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Description from Wikipedia

The Lycaenidae are the second-largest family of butterflies, with about 6000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 40% of the known butterfly species.

No range data available.