Bug o’the Week – A Tale of Two Butterflies – Part 2 – Marine Blue
A few days after she found an American Snout butterfly (of recent BOTW fame), the BugLady saw this small, pale, worn butterfly ahead of her on the ground. At first, she thought it might be a Summer Azure probing for minerals. Usually, they’re pretty uncooperative about having their pictures taken, so she was really happy that this “Blue” wasn’t camera shy. When she looked at it on the camera’s screen, she saw that it was not your run-of-the-mill Summer Azure.
It was a Marine Blue (Leptotes marina), a butterfly listed as “A very rare stray in Wisconsin.”