Male Small Blue butterfly, Cupido minimus, Lycaenidae, Lepidoptera. The small blue is the smallest butterfly found in the United Kingdom.

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Male Small Blue butterfly, Cupido minimus, Lycaenidae, Lepidoptera. The small blue is known for being the smallest butterfly found in the United Kingdom. It is often found in chalk and limestone grasslands of southern England. It is also found in Europe, Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, Tian-Shan, western Siberia, central Siberia, southern Siberia, the Russian Far East, Amur, Mongolia, Magadan and Kamchatka. In the UK, small blues lay their eggs, live, and feed exclusively on the kidney vetch.

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Size: 2941px × 2046px
Location: Totternhoe Knolls, Bedfordshire, UK
Photo credit: © Naturepix / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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