Entomology has never been my strong suit. The up-side of this is that I can easily get really excited about what must be very mundane beetles and butterflies to anyone who knows what they are looking at.Today I'm all a-flutter (see what I did there?) about a little blue butterfly that I photographed.
Can someone more knowledgeable than myself weigh in as to whether this is the endangered Karner blue butterfly, or some more common variety of Lycaeides melissa? If it is in fact the Karner blue then I believe this would be the first sighting in Virginia for a very long time.
Click on the photo for a bigger image. I realize that odds are that this is some very dull, common subspecies that is totally not worth paying attention to, but if someone could let me know for certain than I would appreciate it.
[Photo copyright 2011 by Jackson Landers. All rights reserved.]
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