Spring azure
The spring azure is a small butterfly with shiny metal-blue wings. Underneath, its wings are white with little speckles. It is one of the little blue butterflies of North America.
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Fun facts
The females have a black edge around their blue wings.
Some scientists think it is really the same kind of butterfly as a cousin that lives in Europe and Asia.
It lives in almost all of the United States, but not in the south of Florida or on the Texas coast.
Most asked questions about Spring azure
?How big is the spring azure?
Its wings are about 2 to 3,5 cm across.
?Where does the spring azure live?
In most of North America, from Alaska south to the mountains of Colombia.
?Is the spring azure dangerous?
No. It is a harmless little butterfly.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Celastrina ladon
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Echo blue
Where the facts come from
- Celastrina ladon (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 Walter Siegmund. CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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