Ross Hoddinott / Common blue butterflies (Polyommatus icarus) basking in the morning light, Vealand Farm, Devon, UK. July

Ross Hoddinott / Chalkhill blue butterfly (Polyommatus coridon) Hatch Hill, Somerset, UK. August.

Ross Hoddinott / Common blue butterfly (Polyommatus icarus) resting on devil's bit scabious (Succisa pratensis), Vealand Farm, Devon, UK. August

Ross Hoddinott / Common blue butterflies (Polyommatus icarus) resting on grasses, Vealand Farm, Devon, UK. June 2017

Ross Hoddinott / Female chalkhill blue butterfly (Lysandra coridon) with wings closed resting on Devils-bit scabious (Succisa pratensis), Hatch Hill, Somerset, UK. August 2016.

Ross Hoddinott / Common blue butterfly (Polyommatus icarus) resting on grasses at sunset, Vealand Farm, Devon, UK. July. Commended in the Your View Category of the Take a View Landscape Photographer of the Year Compet...

Benjamin Barthelemy / Brown argus (Aricia agestis) butterfly, Vallee de la Seille (Seille Valley), Lorraine, France, August.

Ross Hoddinott / 2020VISION / Common blue butterfly (Polyommatus icarus), resting on flowering heather, Arne RSPB reserve, Dorset, England, UK September

Florian Möllers / Common blue butterfly (Polyommatus icarus)warming up, Berlin, Germany, July

Colin Varndell / Common blue butterfly (Polyommatus icarus) at rest. Dorset, UK, May

Wild Wonders of Europe / della Ferrera / Amanda's blue (Polyommatus amandus) on grass seed, Nuglasica area, Northern part of Livanjsko Polje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, May 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Maitland / Bladder campion (Silene vulgaris) with seed heads, and an Eschers blue butterfly (Polyommatus escheri) Stenje region, Galicica National Park, Macedonia, June 2009, dead insects and plants placed direc...