Common
Blue Polyommatus icarus (Rottemburg, 1775)  |
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.....This is a
widespread butterfly in Nottinghamshire, fairly typical of a wide
range of habitats and is likely to be present at
any site where the larval foodplant of
Bird's-foot Trefoil grows. Although widespread,
it's distribution does become rather patchy and
it is generally less frequent from north-east of
Nottingham and it's suburbs, to north past
Retford. Like so many other butterflies, the Common Blue has
benefitted from the closure of the county's Collieries. Quick to
colonise any post-industrial brownfield site, it has been another
pioneering species of most former spoil heaps and can now be found in
good numbers at many of them. |
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| Male
photographed at Budby South Forest August 2009 |
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| Male photographed at
Warsop Main Pit Top August 2009 |
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Female photographed at
Warsop Main Pit Top August 2009 |
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| Male
photographed at Eakring Meadows May 2003 |
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Female
photographed at Eakring Meadows May 2004 |
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Early stages |
| Ova/egg. Photographed at
Blackpool Plantation, June 2022. |
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3rd instar larva. Photographed at Blackpool
Plantation, June 2022. |
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Full-grown larva. Photographed at Blackpool
Plantation, June 2022. |
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Pupa. Photographed at Blackpool Plantation,
July 2022. |
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