Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: blue butterfly, 1 by LEO88

LEO88 wrote:
firstly, let me say what a stunning photograph; I'm definitely archiving that one in my Lep-photos.

here in the Great Lakes region...we have a beautiful little blue butterfly...the 'Karner' Melissa Blue (more familiarly known as "Karner Blues") Lycaeides melissa samuelis... the blue caterpillars can only feed on wild blue lupine... it is endangered & uncommon (see link) ...your butterfly looks VERY close to our Karner blue... try searching the genera Lycaeides that are found in your area... I'm gonna pass your photo on to some local entomologists... maybe I'll get some more info for you.

http://www.nweco.com/Karner_Blue.htm