HOLLY BLUE ON HOLLY EGG LAYING & MATING

Was cycling along planning not to go far and didn't (still in pain when I got home) and just as I was still on the River Lea I spotted something.

Small light bluish butterfly fluttered past me and up towards a bridge. At these points my brain now says right a Blue Butterfly or a Hairstreak Butterfly! I walks up onto the bridge and managed to see more than half a dozen of them and then realized they was n a Holly Bush, lol. They were also mating and laying eggs.

A CONUNDRUM IN BLUE PART TWO - HOLLY BLUE BUTTERFLY - CELASTRINA ARGIOLUS

The second part of a FIVE PART series all of which taken, shot and recorded along with a VERY SURPRISED and CONFUSED insect enthusiast brother which even includes videos of him and my nephew arriving who also witnessed my SECOND NIKON P520 and FOURTH CAMERA OVERALL being.....FAULTY!!!

You really, REALLY cannot make this stuff up!!!

HOLLY BLUE BUTTERFLY - CELASTRINA ARGIOLUS

Finally a shot or two and a video of the upper side of a Holly Blue Butterfly!

I also saw something that was smaller and looking pale blue in flight, brother thought it might have been a Purple Hairstreak and unfortunately I lost track of it.

Cornmill Stream.

VIDEO of HOLLY BLUE BUTTERFLY - CELASTRINA ARGIOLUS

Finally!!!

Now onto the next species of Blue Butterfly!!

HOLLY BLUE BUTTERFLY - CELASTRINA ARGIOLUS

Shocked to see this and it immediately took off followed by my after it.

I got fifty yards and I was called back by my brother Ryan because he had spotted Purple Hairstreak Butterflies.