Chapman's blue
Chapman's blue is a small blue butterfly from southern Europe and Asia. The males are blue, but in summer the females are brown with a row of orange spots near the wing edges. Underneath, its wings are ochre with black dots ringed in white.
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Fun facts
Spring and summer butterflies look different. In spring the undersides of the back wings are grey, and in summer they are sandy brown.
It looks a lot like the common blue, but it is smaller.
There are two slightly different kinds of it, one in Europe and one in the mountains of Central Asia.
Most asked questions about Chapman's blue
?What does Chapman's blue eat?
Its caterpillar eats sainfoin, a flowering plant of the pea family.
?How do you tell Chapman's blue from the common blue?
It is smaller, and underneath its front wings it lacks the spots near the body that the common blue has.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Polyommatus thersites
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Polyommatus thersites (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 sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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