Meleager's blue
Meleager's blue is a small butterfly that lives in warm, flowery meadows. The male shines bright sky blue, while the female is blue with dark brown edges. The edges of its back wings are wavy, like a scallop shell.
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Fun facts
Ants look after its caterpillars.
It lives on hills from about 200 to 1,700 metres above the sea.
There is only one family of it each year, and the butterflies fly from June to August.
Its caterpillar is green with little yellow bumps.
It likes warm valleys with limestone ground.
Most asked questions about Meleager's blue
?Where does Meleager's blue live?
In southern and eastern Europe and western Asia, from Poland to Turkey, Iran and Lebanon.
?What does Meleager's blue eat?
The butterflies visit meadow flowers, and the caterpillars eat plants like horseshoe vetch and sainfoin.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Polyommatus daphnis
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Polyommatus daphnis (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 Zeynel Cebeci. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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