2023 June 13 morning

      Steven Roias asks if this report and photographs of a female Boisduval’s Blue from Spectacle Lake (off Malahat) on 11 June 2023 is “worth reporting?”    I’ll say! Very exciting indeed, and it reminds us all that, at this time of year, we must examine all blues carefully and not casually dismiss them as Azures.  Steven continues:  She was not
nectaring the entire time we were observing, but rather flying and resting on a number of plants (Broad-leaved Lupine Lupinus latifolius, Trailing Blackberry Rubus ursinus and woody debris.)

 

Boisduval’s Blue Icaricia icarioides (Lep.: Lycaenidae)
Amélie Rousseau