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Favorite Adult Nectar Sources: Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa), Joe Pye weed ... Aptly named, the spring azure is often one of the first butterflies encountered when the first warm weather of spring arrives. Its prompt appearance alongside the early season blooms of many trees and shrubs is no mere coincidence.
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www.floridata.com/tracks/butterfly/spring.cfm
www.floridata.com/tracks/butterfly/spring.cfm
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Spring Azure / Summer Azure Butterfly - Celastrina ladon; Aka Summer Azure, Holly Azure / Family: Lycaenidae (Harvesters, coppers, hairstreaks, and blues) / Subfamily Polyommatinae / Species: Celastrina ladon; Live adult butterflies photographed in the wild at Winfield, Illinois, USA.
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www.cirrusimage.com/butterfly_sazure.htm
www.cirrusimage.com/butterfly_sazure.htm
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The Spring Azure is one of the first butterflies to appear in the spring. ... The Spring Azure butterfly provides another good example of the difficulties associated with identifying blue butterflies. ... top view picture of a spring azure butterfly...
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Spring Azure Butterfl ... The color of the spring azure (Celastrina ladon) changes seasonally. For the most part, however, the upperside of the wings of males are blue. Female wings have some black on the forewing's outer edge. The undersides of the hindwing are a grayish-white with faded small black dots and margins in...
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Celastrina ladon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Spring Azure ( Celastrina ladon ) is a butterfly of the Lycaenidae family. It is found in North America from Alaska and Canada south of the tundra through most of the United States except ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celastrina_ladon
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This very common little butterfly, Spring Azure, is abundant here right now, and is always one of the first butterflies I see in the early spring. We had a very warm, sunny day here yesterday and my little plum tree was filled with bees and these little blue butterflies.
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Photo of Spring Azure, description, similar species, life cycle, flight, habitat, range, discussion. Butterflies of North America; Photo, wing span, identification, ... Dave Powell's Butterfly Site ... Photos of Spring Azure.
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www.nenature.com/SpringAzure.htm
www.nenature.com/SpringAzure.htm
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The spring azure butterfly has blue wings. It is very pretty and blue. It has a wingspan of 3/4" to 1 1/4". It lives in openings and edges of forest, fields, and wooded marshes and swamps. It eats flower nectar from plants like the blackberry and milkweed plant.
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The male spring azure butterfly is powdery blue. The female is darker. It lives near woods. It drinks nectar from dogwoods, New Jersey tea, buckeyes, and viburnum. The caterpillar can be green or rose colored and has a small head.
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www.orange.k12.oh.us/teachers/mhs/bsosic/2002-2003/ohio%20butterflies%20and%20moths/pages/springazure.html
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