A Male Common Blue Butterfly At The Southern Range Road, Boreham, Warminster

Friday 21st June 2019

A male Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus) butterfly on grass adjacent the Southern Range Road (Battlesbury Spur), Boreham, Warminster.  The Common Blue, as the first part of its name suggests, is the most widespread blue butterfly in Britain. (The female in Southern England has upper wings that are brown).  Photograph taken by Danny Howell on Friday 21st June 2019.

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