Large Blue (Maculinea arion) - a photo on Flickriver

            First listed as British in 1795, the Large Blue was always rare but in 1979 in disappeared completely from our shores.

Swedish adults were later re-introduced and now the butterfly is doing well.

Photographed at Collard Hill, Somerset (2014)

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Compton Dundon (show map)

Taken on: June 19, 2014

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