It is the second largest family after scoop.It includes six thousand species, which is about forty percent of all currently known butterflies.Typically, this small specimens (five centimeters), with bright colors and a characteristic metallic luster.Some species have peculiar protuberances on the rear fenders ("tails").For this they are sometimes called "theclinae."
How are the tracks?
Usually they are not cylindrical but flat.It may be herbivores that feed on plants and entomophagous that eat aphids, the larvae of ants.Some butterflies can influence the ants, encouraging them to nurse their tracks.The fact that copper-butterfly butterfly has a special gland in the seventh abdominal segment that highlights the sweet liquid that helps to communicate with ants.
inhabited copper-butterfly?
Butterflies of this species live throughout the world.Only in Russia of more than fifty kinds.They are well known to residents of rural areas.They live in the meadows, forest edges, meadows.In a short article, we will hardly be able to introduce you to all the members of this species, but the most common will try to present to you.
Agriades glyandon
How does this type of copper-butterfly butterfly?The males have a bluish-silver wings.Usually they live in the tundra, deciduous woodlands.They feed on plant saxifrage.
Ariktsiya atrakserks
bright and beautiful butterfly thirteen millimeters in size.It does chocolate-brown wings with red spots on the edge.For the British population is characterized by white spots, which have no butterflies on the continent.She lives in meadows, mountain usually in Europe.Rockrose feeds and erodium.To see these butterflies can be in June-August.The caterpillar overwinters.
Arion
This copper-butterfly butterfly somewhat larger - the size of 20 mm.The color of the wings of the female has a thick coating of dark gray or black in color with a border.Caterpillars hibernate in nests of ants.It is growing in most of Europe, except northern regions.Unfortunately, this species is on the brink of destruction.Butterfly feeds on the larvae of ants and thyme.
Birch marshmallows
Undoubtedly, this is one of the most beautiful blues, which are widespread in Eurasia.Hvostatok different from other larger sizes and a pattern on the inner side of the wings.Caterpillars feel comfortable in gooseberry, birch, different Rosaceae.Watch they can be in August-September.
Mnogoglazka spotted
This is a very beautiful butterfly copper-butterfly, which can be seen in Russia in July.In addition, it is widespread in North America and Eurasia.Caterpillars feed mountaineer and sorrel.
copper-butterfly forest
This butterfly is painted a much more modest.Males of this species have purple wings with dark borders, and females - brown.The interior of the wings has black dots.The first butterflies appear in early May.Their larvae live on beans.
copper-butterfly eastern
Perhaps this is the most common type in the Baikal region.Description butterfly copper-butterfly East must begin with its bright appearance.The males are violet-blue with dark wings wide enough border, and females are colored more modest, though still impressive.Their wings are light brown with bright orange spots.Caterpillars of this kind of love to settle on legumes.
copper-butterfly peat
Representatives of this type are common in the taiga zone.In mid-summer puddles along the road covered with a continuous layer of these butterflies.The caterpillars live on blueberries and blueberry.This species is distributed in the vast territory to the Arctic Circle.The males are blue with a purple tinge.The females are dark-brown wings with yellow spots.
copper-butterfly turquoise
This type common in Europe and Asia, especially effectively looks male.It has a bright blue color.For the caterpillar food plant is an ordinary lady's finger.It should be noted that females usually lay their eggs only on the youngest leaves.It also tracks and winter.In the spring they devour buds, new leaves and buds, then pupate in the foliage, fallen from the trees.During the year, there is a generation of butterflies.Their years in July.
copper-butterfly buropyatnistaya or maleatr
This type is different from other beautiful serrated edge of the rear wings.Top of blue and shiny.Females are more wide black border.In maleatra light gray with black dots underside and very bright edge pattern.This butterfly is common in southern Europe.It prefers to settle on the warm slopes of flowering hills.The copper-butterfly butterfly feeds on buropyatnistaya?Her favorite plants - thyme and dwarf beans.
Orion
This little butterfly fourteen millimeters in size, and the wing span - up to twenty-nine millimeters.Front wing - up to sixteen millimeters.Butterflies have a black color with a blue spot at the base.In Scandinavian countries, males and females are equally painted in blue.The underside of the wings almost white with big black dots and orange stripe.Individuals have a poorly defined sexual dimorphism.It lives in the south of Europe, on dry stony slopes.It feeds on stonecrop and gornokolosnikom.Years falls on the end of May to mid-July.In the year it gives one or two generations.The caterpillar overwinters.
theclinae royal
This is one of the largest and certainly one of the most beautiful blues.Males have wings span is six centimeters.The hind wings of butterflies have long spurs.Their foundation females are bright red markings.Below the wings are painted in rich green color with black stripes.In repose butterfly folds its wings, and to distinguish it in the foliage impossible.This beautiful butterfly is most often seen in Central and South America and Mexico.
Icarus
This day butterfly - a typical representative of the family of blues.Depending on the habitat can be developed in two or three generations.And in the steppes of Ukraine and southern Crimea may appear and fourth.
Quite often the females lay eggs near anthills on only emerged leaves.Later, the young larvae migrate to the lower part of the leaf and eat around the edges at first, and then destroy the entire surface completely.Usually winters or caterpillar, a chrysalis, which happens much less frequently.
common blue butterfly got its name from the name of the hero of Greek mythology, Icarus, son of Daedalus.He soared on the wings made of feathers and fastened with wax, flew too close to the sun, the wax melted and Icarus died.Copper-butterfly butterfly photo, which you can see in this article, is widespread in Russia, in its middle lane.It can be seen from April to October.Within a year develop from one to four generations.It depends on the latitude data.Caterpillars feed on leaves, buds, flowers, a variety of plants, mostly legumes.
This is a small butterfly of the front wing is not more than seventeen millimeters.Wings of male painted in rich blue-purple color, females - brown with yellow spots.For Icarus typical mottled pattern on the underside of the wings.It consists of two rows of black spots along the edges, which are usually separated orange stripe.It may be flat or curved.
common blue is a good pollinator of wild and cultivated legumes.
