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Celastrina neglecta, the summer azure, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in North America. Layberry, Hall, and Lafontaine, in The Butterflies of Canada, describe the species: The upper surface is pale blue with an extensive dusting of white scales, especially on the hindwing.
Caterpillars hatch and bore into the buds in late spring. Worker ants of a few species, including the ferruginous carpenter ant ( Camponotus chromaiodes ), an unnamed carpenter ant Camponotus nearcticus , and an unnamed citronella ant Lasius alienus , accompany the caterpillars.
Celastrina ladon, the spring azure or echo blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae.It is found in North America from Alaska and Canada south of the tundra, through most of the United States except the Texas coast, southern plain and peninsula Florida; south in the mountains to Colombia, also on Molokai island, Hawaii.
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Celastrina serotina, the cherry gall azure, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found across North America as far north as the treeline . Its flight time is between mid-May and mid-June in eastern Ontario after the spring azure and before the summer azure . [ 2 ]
Celastrina lucia, the lucia azure, northern azure, eastern spring azure or northern spring azure, is a species of butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found eastern North America, ranging from the Maritimes south through the Appalachian Mountains to West Virginia. [2] The wingspan is between 22–35 mm. Adults are sexually dimorphic. They ...
They typically have an incomplete dark dorsal band and the greener caterpillars may have pale white markings. [2] [3] The Appalachian azure's larvae are specialists, living on and only eating the flowers of the black cohosh (Actaea racemosa). [2] [3] The adult azure typically lives for a few weeks from mid-May to late June. [4]
P. serotina hosts the caterpillars of more than 450 species of butterflies and moths, including those of the eastern tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus), red-spotted purple/white admiral (Limenitis arthemis), viceroy (Limenitis archippus), and cherry gall azure (Celastrina serotina) butterflies and the cecropia (Hyalophora cecropia), promethea ...