Still haven't dug up my own photos yet but I found the iNaturalist link for the image in question: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/35926051 Here is another iNaturalist record

I hate to disagree with Norbert and Bob but I think it’s icarioides. The ground color is two-toned fuzzy gray, not worn/missing scales, while Celastrina echo from this area is very flat white/pale

If I was wrong, I'm happy to be corrected! That said, now I want to find that image on iNaturalist, to see what I said, but can't find it. Do you have the iNaturalist link Kelly? -Stewart

I vote for Celastrina. In addition to what Bob pointed out, note also the dark terminal line on the ventral hind wing. The icarioides subspecies blackmorei and montis do have very lightly marked

Well, Kelly, this one is a challenge! But I think you were right in the first place, that it is an Echo Azure. My dictum about "any spots distal of the mesial band" being Icaricia only applies to

I was using inaturalist to explore locations where Silvery Blues and Boisduval’s Blues had been reported in prairies of south Puget Sound. I looked at the photo linked below and saw that it had

Carlolyn, It is good to get your urban Western Tiger Swallowtail record! I am finding them later than usual this year in my West Seattle Lincoln Park, and in smaller numbers than usual for mid-June.

Thanks Bob! -Stewart

Don't count on it, Kelly. Caitlin and I were rudely surprised by one such distinction we thought we'd made for the Field Guide! Yes, the margins are helpful, and yes, the color on average differs such

Thanks Caitlin. The butterfly in the first picture struck me as a vibrant shiny blue and I thought it was likely a Silvery Blue. It was also some distance away from the larger patches of sickle-keeled

Yes those are all icarioides blackmorei. Male Silvery Blues don’t have much of a brown edge between the blue and the wing fringe, while icarioides almost always have a noticeable brown margin, and

I spent some time, yesterday, trying to photograph blues on the sickle-keeled lupines at West Rocky Prairie in Thurston County. I got several dozen pictures of blues. The only views of ventral hind

Stewart, that's a really good record! We really don't have many records for the WWA-resident E. clarus! The other ones you want to watch for are the Bramble Green Hairstreak, the Northern

Made it to Harstene Island in the Puget Sound today, north of Olympia and east of the base of the Kitsap Peninsula, where a friend, Manzanita Bill, was keen on seeing the Hairy Manzanitas -

Good for you. I saw my first Lorquin Admiral today. Sue

I saw my first Tiger Swallowtail today at my home in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle. It is about 3 weeks later than other years!

Nice, great to see the weather conditions are improving. I am all set for my Washington visit in 2 weeks. Bob P Edmonton

That's a good day's work, Mike. Here at Gray's River, the first real sunny day, all day, in weeks. I can't decide whether the gods are just being ironic by doing this on the Summer Solstice. In a

The weather and my schedule finally lined up for a trip up Hwy 202 to Northrop Creek and Beneke Creek. Just in time for National Pollinator Week. Lots of stuff to see. Daytime flying COMMON

North Warners Butterfly Count Dates of our count (9th year) Actual count is Saturday 25 June. We base our count from the Sunrise Motel in Cedarville CA on Hwy 299. We are there from