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Eastern-Tailed Blue Butterfly

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Description:

No bigger than your thumbnail. Very hard to shoot with the wind blowing, them flitting all over the place and my 3 dogs along on the shoot, lol.

Species ID Suggestions

Eastern Tailed-blue

Everes comyantas
alicelongmartin
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Comments (4)
Marianne Wells
Thank you Alice. I Googled that and came up with this, http://www.gardenswithwings.com/butterfly/Eastern%20Tailed-Blue/index.html .... I really enjoy finding out the names of what I'm taking pictures of :)
Ashish
Is it a moth...? lot of fur on it...
chachikillsjim
Great blue butterfly! Check out the one I snapped in CA.

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Great Pollinator Project of NYC
Photographed
PublishedApril 18, 2011

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