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

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 / 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 / Maitland / Nipplewort (Lapsana communis) in flower with Eschers blue butterfly (Polyommatus escheri) and Silver-studded blue (Plebejus argus) Stenje region, Galicica National Park, Macedonia, June 2009, dead ins...

Wild Wonders of Europe / Maitland / Female Common blue butterfly (Polyommatus icarus) on Trefoil (Lotus sp) Lake Macro Prespa, Stenje region, Galicica National Park, Macedonia, June 2009

Guy Edwardes / Common blue butterfly (Polyommatus icarus) resting on grass, Dorset, England, May

Kim Taylor / Common blue butterfly (Polyommatus icarus) females awaking at sunrise among Harebells (Campanula rotundifolia) Surrey, England, digital composite