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Butterfly

DateSun 2011-03-06

From three years back: a holly blue butterfly, Celastrina argiolus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae).  The small blue butterfly (Cupido minimus) is similar, but is less common and has more rounded black dots on its wings.

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2008-07-26.

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