Description
It's a bit of a challenge to get a nice close-up of these little guys since they tend to be flighty and fast. Fortunately for me I spied this one perched very nicely on a spirea bush with my camera in hand.
Females are blue with expanded dark brown margins so I'm assuming this one with lighter margins is a male. There are one or two very small black spots near the single hair-like hindwing tail. Everes amyntula is found in Canada from northeastern Quebec to Vancouver Island, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories, with a single record from Nunavut at Coppermine. An isolated population occurs in the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec and in northern New Brunswick.
Taken By
Heather Mellon
Taken On
June 18, 2020
Tagged
everes
amyntula
western
tailed
blue
on
a
spirea
bush
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Focal:
300
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Shutter speed:
0.002
sec
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Aperture: f/
5.6
