Wednesday 9 December 2015

BButterfly advent Day 9


Chak-hill Blue is an extremely localised and scarce species mainly found in south-eastern Belgium.  In August, I made a special trip to an old chalk quarry near Liège in order to see this species for the first time.  The thriving colony there was in a mating frenzy, the brown female here surrounded by several males, which are much paler than the other blues and look almost white in flight.