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Gill Catton
Knight Commander of the Wild Empire
Registered: March 2006
Location: Little village called Chedworth
Posts: 5,852
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Possibly a common blue male either immature or cold as the colouring clearly isn't the recognised level of blue!! The 'tail' segment directly after the thorax has a little dot joined to the next segment with a thin line - this is what leads me to suspect it's identity....
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life through a lens
Member of the Wild Empire
Registered: April 2006
Location: Woking, Surrey
Posts: 328
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Thanks Gill.
Just had a look through the images on arkive.org and it is a dead ringer for a picture of a female common blue.
Just need to get it edited now.....
Olly
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glsammy
Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire
Registered: October 2005
Location: Nottingham
Posts: 13,193
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Quote:
Originally Posted by life through a lens
Thanks Gill.
Just had a look through the images on arkive.org and it is a dead ringer for a picture of a female common blue.
Just need to get it edited now.....
Olly
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It's a male Common Blue! They are this colour when immature. The pale straw colour will eventually turn blue. The female doesn't have the different colours on the abdomen, with only a thin line between the sections, and also doesn't have the two (eventual!) blue sections on S8-9.
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Graham
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life through a lens
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Quote:
Originally Posted by glsammy
It's a male Common Blue! They are this colour when immature. The pale straw colour will eventually turn blue. The female doesn't have the different colours on the abdomen, with only a thin line between the sections, and also doesn't have the two (eventual!) blue sections on S8-9.
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I stand corrected and have added notes to my little black book !!
Thanks for the info glsammy
Olly
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glsammy
Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire
Registered: October 2005
Location: Nottingham
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Originally Posted by life through a lens
I stand corrected and have added notes to my little black book !!
Thanks for the info glsammy
Olly
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It's a pleasure Olly. These creatures are very hard to id at the best of times, I often get them wrong, we never stop learning!
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Graham
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