Boisduval's Blue: Icaricia icarioides

Boisduval's blues observed in wetlands along the Box Canyon Road about one-third of a mile west of Box Canyon in the East Simcoe Mountains Unit of the Klickitat Wildlife Area......May 23, 2020.

A boisduval's blue at left on moist, clay soils in a vernally moist swale amidst mountain big sagebrush along the South Loop Road, Steens Mountain, Harney County, Oregon.........July 9, 2014. The photo at right shows a Boisduval's blue mudding on vernally moist scabland soils along Box Canyon Road about one and one-half miles east of the trailhead, Simcoe Mountains Unit of the Klickitat Wildlife Area.......June 15, 2022.

Boisduval's blues (and an acmon blue) mudding on vernally moist soils in a puddle along the main access road through the Bickleton Ridge Unit of the Klickitat Wildlife Area northwest of Bickleton, WA........May 28, 2017.

The photo at left shows the ventral wing surfaces of a Boisduval's blue as seen near Simcoe Butte in north-central Klickitat County, WA........June 16, 2007. The photos a tcenter and right shows a Boisduval's blue on mountain snowberry (Symphoricarpos rotundifolia) observed along the Fremont National Recreation Trail #160, Twelvemile Peak, Fremont-Winema National Forest......July 16, 2022.

The photo at left shows a close-up view of Boisduval's blue as seen on prairie slopes above the Snake River along the trail between Buckhorn Lookout and Eureka Bar in Wallowa-Whitman N.F........June 27, 2008. The photo at right shows a Boisduval's blue atop Bald Butte which is located about 8-10 miles north of Gearhart Mountain, Fremont-Winema National Forest........June 19, 2020..

The photo at left shows the upper wing surface of a Boisduval's blue that is mudding on moist soils at the entrance to Buckhorn Campground on the western edge of the Imnaha Canyon in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest........June 27, 2008. The photo at right shows two Boisduval's blues mudding on moist soils at the entrance to Buckhorn Campground on the western edge of the Imnaha Canyon in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest.........June 27, 2008.

This photo at left shows a Boisduval's blue mudding on moist soils along an old road along Rock Creek upstream of Hot Springs Campground, Hart Mt. National Antelope Refuge.........June 9, 2016. The photo at right shows a Boisduval's blue (behind) and a greenish blue (in front) nectaring at a small creek crossing along the South Prong Trail #321, Black Canyon Wilderness......June 17, 2019.