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NATURE
Butterflies
Common Blue
Polyommatus icarus
Wingspan 32mm
Common in grassy places and widespread in mainland Britain and parts of Ireland. Flies April-September in successive broods. Male has blue upperwings, female's being generally brown. Underside grey-brown with dark spots. Larva on trefoils.



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