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IRIS Greenville, SC(Zone 7a) Aug 10, 2007

what kind of flutterby is this?

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claypa West Pottsgrove, PA(Zone 6b) Aug 10, 2007

With that little black edge in the fore-wing, it's likely that this is a Spring Azure or Southern Spring Azure, one of a group of butterflies called Blues. Celastrina ladon

Did you get a look at the upper side too? That's great picture. It could probably just be narrowed down to a few, like Summer Azure an Appalachian Azure which are also flying in (or near) your area now, but the black edge on the wing is supposed to be an ID characteristic.

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IRIS Greenville, SC(Zone 7a) Aug 10, 2007

claypa, Thankyou!

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claypa West Pottsgrove, PA(Zone 6b) Aug 10, 2007

You're welcome - I almost forgot, I think it's female. kennedyh has a couple pictures of this butterfly in Bug Files, hopefully he can weigh in on this ID, these are awfully close in appearance...

http://davesgarden.com/bf/go/220/

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IRIS Greenville, SC(Zone 7a) Aug 10, 2007

close in appearencem but, Not the same, ..interesting

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IRIS Greenville, SC(Zone 7a) Aug 10, 2007

Thankyou for posting the link

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claypa West Pottsgrove, PA(Zone 6b) Aug 10, 2007

Those are in Canada, these butterflies are variable. Look at these:

http://www.carolinanature.com/butterflies/springazure.html

http://bugguide.net/node/view/16420

http://www.dallasbutterflies.com/Butterflies/html/ladon.html

The first site says these don't fly in summer, but another one does... it certainly could be the Summer Azure too, they used to be the same species. Hopefully we'll get some more input here!
Mike

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claypa West Pottsgrove, PA(Zone 6b) Aug 10, 2007

http://www.carolinanature.com/butterflies/summerazure.html

I guess the summer flight time they're referring to is in N. Carolina.

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IRIS Greenville, SC(Zone 7a) Aug 10, 2007

I think we are definately on track ...Sure looks like the right one :)

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Dinu Mysore, India(Zone 10a) Aug 10, 2007

It's most probably the same I'm also trying to identify in my post.

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claypa West Pottsgrove, PA(Zone 6b) Aug 10, 2007

Dinu, it's in the same large Family, Lycaenidae. Did you look up the names I gave you for your Blue butterfly?

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Dinu Mysore, India(Zone 10a) Aug 11, 2007

Not yet Claypa. I've now quite a few pending threads to be verified.

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