Escher's blue
Polyommatus escheri
Escher's blue is a butterfly from southern Europe and Morocco. It looks a lot like the common blue, but it is much bigger. The boys are blue on top, with a very thin black edge.
Lives in
Southern Europe, from Spain to the Balkans and the Alps, and Morocco
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Butterflies cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Grown-ups drink nectar from flowers. Its caterpillars eat milk-vetch and plantain leaves.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Escher's blue about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It flies in a rather clumsy way and likes to visit the stony beds of mountain streams.
2
Its eggs are pure white and flat, covered with a tiny net pattern.
3
Its caterpillars can still be found on their food plants as late as April.
4
Each front wing is about 17 to 19 millimetres long.
you asked
Most asked questions about Escher's blue
?Where does Escher's blue live?
In southern Europe, from Spain to the Balkans and up into the Alps, and in Morocco.
?What does Escher's blue eat?
The butterflies drink flower nectar, and the caterpillars eat milk-vetch and plantain.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Polyommatus escheri
- Named by
- Hübner
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa
Where the facts come from
- Polyommatus escheri (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Eric SYLVESTRE. CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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