Holly Blue by durleybeachbum

Photography • Insects • posted on Apr 12, 2015

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The first Holly Blue, Celastrina argiolus, of this year on my lovely Abies procera glauca prostrate. Another view

Comments (19)

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wysiwig

12:59PM | Sun, 12 April 2015

What a beauty. You are very fortunate. Butterflies are a rarity in Southern California these days.

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Star4mation

1:08PM | Sun, 12 April 2015

Superb shot Andrea :)

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pat40

1:22PM | Sun, 12 April 2015

Wonderful shot and capture

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jayfar

2:02PM | Sun, 12 April 2015

A really lovely capture Andrea.

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jocko500

2:04PM | Sun, 12 April 2015

very good shot of the blue animal

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giulband

2:06PM | Sun, 12 April 2015

Great capture and well composed image !!!

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jendellas

2:50PM | Sun, 12 April 2015

A superb capture.

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SunriseGirl

4:05PM | Sun, 12 April 2015

Great capture

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MrsRatbag

9:07PM | Sun, 12 April 2015

And a snail too? What a superb capture!

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Juliette.Gribnau

3:18AM | Mon, 13 April 2015

beautiful

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Art_Ramos

8:15AM | Mon, 13 April 2015

Nice capture!

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CavalierLady

9:22AM | Mon, 13 April 2015

Beautiful closeup of a butterfly that is completely new to me!

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kgb224

12:14PM | Mon, 13 April 2015

Amazing capture Andrea. God bless.

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helanker

2:19PM | Mon, 13 April 2015

How lovely and also the little snail :)

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Glendaw

11:05PM | Mon, 13 April 2015

Fantastic shot of blue on blue ! The snail is a added feature indeed !

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irisinthespring

7:29PM | Tue, 14 April 2015

Beautiful captures!

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anahata.c

4:24PM | Thu, 16 April 2015

I'm at over an hour, so I must leave again, unfortunately. But I'll do more soon. And I wanted to get an insect shot---one from this week too---so I jumped ahead to this. Zoomed it's a huge shot, and that amazing butterfly seems like a beautiful silk construction, or maybe taffeta of some kind. With fringes, and beads for antennae. The top needles (if those leaf-like protrusions are needles) look like fingers reaching out for something. And they frame the top of the shot for all the activity below. I assume that's a larvae sac below the butterfly; but whatever it is, it's beautiful. As is the spindly reach of all those needles. I really don't know plant types, so I'm using very general words here. In fact, I"m not very knowledgeable about insects either, so if I'm wrong about the "butterfly" term, forgive me...A scintillating closeup of a creature who, I assume, doesn't have a long life, but whose textures are like fine fabric and fringe. A beautiful intimate shot, Andrea. And a nice place to end for now...

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