Butterfly was briefly captured to facilitate identification and then released unharmed.
Referring to the butterfly in the foreground of the first picture/below in the second; the other is a Mylitta Crescent.
This male Greenish Blue was photographed in Lassen Park at Lost Creek on 6/17/08. There were 50 to 60 of them in a quarter mile stretch of the creek.
This Becker's White was photographed in the Owen's Valley east of Big Pine, Eastern California.
This is the smallest butterfly in the world. Photographed in Modoc County, Northern California. Photo taken 8/9/2008.
I think these are all the same butterfly? There were so many little blue flutters it was hard to keep track. Pollinator week meadow photo hunt
RD 09 scout day