Alpine blue
The alpine blue is a little butterfly that lives high up in the mountains. The male is sky blue to steely blue with thin black edges and white fringes. Underneath, both males and females have bright white spots.
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Fun facts
The female is brown, sometimes with a little blue dust near her body.
The white spots under its back wings have no black centre, unlike many other blues.
It flies from June to August, depending on where it lives.
Its front wings end in a very pointy tip.
Most asked questions about Alpine blue
?Where does the alpine blue live?
High up in mountains, like the Alps, the mountains of Norway and Sweden, the Urals and the Himalayas.
?How big is the alpine blue?
Its wings are about 25 to 30 millimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Agriades orbitulus
- Named by
- Prunner, 1798
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
- Also known as
- Alpine argus
Where the facts come from
- Agriades orbitulus (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 unknown author. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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