It looks bluer in person than in the photos and the male is solid blue on top of wings, while the female is solid brown on top. This one is my first “blue” this year, I think. I found him on the yellow ground-cover flowers on my side of the driveway slope, where I have to use my walking stick (trekking pole) and good sports sandals or hiking shoes to hold me on the very steep slope while photographing. 🙂 Some species only go to certain flowers when available, so maybe I will start checking these flowers more often. 🙂 We are entering the “fewer butterflies season” for my garden until it picks up again next April/May, though there are some butterflies year around, just like the birds! See more photos of this species in my GALLERY: Eastern Tailed-Blue (including some blue tops). You will find more of these in the Eastern half of the U.S. and Canada than here, but this “northern butterfly” does range as far south as Costa Rica. We get them from both North & South America! 🙂 Here’s two shots from an October sighting . . .
