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Karner Blue

Lycaeides melissa samuelis

Endangered

About

Small blue butterfly with orange crescents on the hindwing underside. Entirely dependent on wild lupine in pine barrens habitats.

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Did You Know?

It was first described by novelist Vladimir Nabokov, who was also a respected lepidopterist.