Silvery blue
The silvery blue is a small butterfly from North America. The boys are light blue on top and the girls are a dull greyish blue. Underneath, its wings are grey with one neat row of round black spots.
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Fun facts
It lives as far north as the Arctic parts of Canada.
There are 16 different kinds of it, each in its own area, like the Palos Verdes blue.
A butterfly called the Xerces blue, which has died out, was once thought to be a kind of silvery blue.
Hercules ants look after its caterpillars.
Most asked questions about Silvery blue
?What does the silvery blue eat?
The butterfly drinks nectar. Its caterpillars eat lupine plants.
?How big is the silvery blue?
Its wings are only about 2 to 3 centimetres from tip to tip.
?Where does the silvery blue live?
In the western United States and most of Canada.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Glaucopsyche lygdamus
- Named by
- Doubleday, 1841
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Glaucopsyche lygdamus (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 Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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