It's butterfly season again. Along the Oyster Bay dunes, these tiny, brilliant blue butterflies were dancing.
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| Spring azure butterfly, Celestrina ladon. |
These are tiny butterflies, about half the size of the cabbage whites. They are very shy; they perch on a flower or leaf, resting, but as soon as I move, even though I'm several metres away, they take off. I tried pretending to be a stump, until my feet started to sprout roots; it didn't work. They knew better than to trust a stump with a camera. None came near me.
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| I hid behind a fence for this one. It looked brown, as in the photo, but as soon as it started to fly, the wings shone out blue again. She may be a female; their wings have a brown edge. |
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| The legs are striped, like hairy hermit antennae. |
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