LYCAENIDAE - BLUES
Small Blue Cupido minimus
Male. Castle Hill NNR, East Sussex. 3rd June 2013
Male. Medley Bottom, Amberley, West Sussex. 22nd May 2019
Male. Kithurst Hill Meadow, West Sussex. 24th May 2016
Female. Kithurst Hill Meadow, West Sussex. 20th June 2019
Silver-studded Blue Plebejus argus
Male, Prees Heath, Shropshire. 26th June 2011
Male, Iping Common, West Sussex. 14th June 2017
Female, Prees Heath, Shropshire. 26th June 2011
Female, Prees Heath, Shropshire. 26th June 2011
Male underside, Prees Heath, Shropshire. 30th June 2013
Female underside, Prees Heath, Shropshire. 30th June 2013
Mating pair, male on the right, Prees Heath, Shropshire. 30th June 2013
Male underside, with a single silver stud. Iping Common, West Susssex. 27th June 2016
Brown Argus Aricia agestis
Male, Coombs Dale, Derbyshire. 19th June 2013
Male, Coombs Dale, Derbyshire. 5th July 2013
Female, Coombs Dale, Derbyshire. 19th July 2010
Female, Coombs Dale, Derbyshire. 2nd July 2011
Underside, Coombs Dale, Derbyshire. 19th July 2010
Underside, Coombs Dale, Derbyshire. 24th July 2012
Northern Brown Argus Aricia artaxerxes ssp. salmacis
Warton Crag, Cumbria. 7th July 2012
Warton Crag, Cumbria. 7th July 2012
Warton Crag, Cumbria. 7th July 2012
Warton Crag, Cumbria. 1st July 2011
Common Blue Polyommatus icarus
Male, Longstone Edge, Derbyshire. 28th May 2021
Male, Coombs Dale, Derbyshire. 1st July 2012
Male underside, Folkton, E. Yorkshire. 17th June 2010
Female, Coombs Dale, Derbyshire. 17th July 2016
Female, more like Brown Argus than usual. Arundel, W. Sussex. 17th July 2018
Female underside, Longstone Edge, Derbyshire. 11th June 2018
Mating pair, Medley Bottom, West Sussex. 24th May 2023
Chalkhill Blue Lysandra coridon
Male, Yoesden Bank, Bucks. 19th August 2011
Male, Kithurst Hill, West Sussex. 31st July 2016
Male underside, Kithurst Hill Meadow, W. Sussex. 10th July 2018
Female, Kithurst Hill, West Sussex. 20th July 2020
Female underside, Kithurst Hill, West Sussex. 20th July 2020
Adonis Blue Lysandra bellargus
Male, Yoesden Bank, Bucks. 19th August 2011
Male, Yoesden Bank, Bucks. 19th August 2011
Male, Yoesden Bank, Bucks. 19th August 2011
Male, underside Medley Bottom, West Sussex. 15th August 2021
Female, underside Medley Bottom, Amberley, West Sussex. 22nd May 2019
Holly Blue Celastrina argiolus
Female, Disley, Cheshire. 17th May 2023
Female, Disley, Cheshire. 17th May 2023
Female, Old Moor RSPB, South Yorkshire. 17th August 2022
Male, Old Moor RSPB, South Yorkshire. 17th August 2022
Male, Disley, Cheshire. 10th June 2009
Large Blue Maculinea arion
Collard Hill, Somerset. 21st June 2012
Collard Hill, Somerset. 21st June 2012
Collard Hill, Somerset. 21st June 2012
Collard Hill, Somerset. 21st June 2012
Collard Hill, Somerset. 21st June 2012
Collard Hill, Somerset. 21st June 2012
Female showing repeated behavior - wings flattened, abdomen raised, then wings and abdomen shaken vigorously for 3-4 seconds - distributing pheromones?
Long-tailed Blue Lampides boeticus
Female, Whitehawk Hill, Brighton, East Sussex. 15th September 2020
Battered male, Whitehawk Hill, Brighton, East Sussex. 15th September 2020