Common Blue - Polyommatus icarus
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Species Description
Widespread and locally frequent throughout the UK. Habitat includes: meadows, railway banks, roadside verges, coasts, old quarries etc. Larval food plant: Common Bird's-foot-trefoil (Lotus corniculatus), Greater Bird's-foot-trefoil (L. pedunculatus), Black Medick (Medicago lupulina), Common Restharrow (Ononis repens), White Clover (Trifolium repens), Lesser Trefoil (T. dubium). Flight period: May to October.