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Common Blue, Hauhechel-Bläulings

Polyommatus icarus

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Field Notes

Description:

small butterfly, blue inside (males) females are often more brown

Habitat:

meadows, fields, they need Lotus corniculatus for their catterpillars

Notes:

once it was common in Middle Europe, now it is getting more and more rare.

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