All photographs ©2004-2007 by Mary Beth Stowe
Blues
Western Tailed Blue, Mission Trails RP (MAR 07)
Silvery Blues, Dough Flats, Los Padres NF (Ventura Co. - APR 07)
Marine Blues, TRV B&B Garden (AUG 06)
A particularly strongly-marked individual (female?)
A very worn individual at the B&B Garden (NOV 06)
Marine Blue, Mission Dam (MAY 07)
Strongly-marked Marine Blue (fresh individual?) at the Borrego Sewer Ponds (JUN 07)
Marine Blue at Lake Jennings (JUL 07)
Western Pygmy Blues at Palm Spring, Anza Borrego Desert SP (SEP 06)
Another individual along Peñasquitos Canyon (OCT 06)
Yet another individual at the B&B Garden (NOV 06)
Western Pygmy Blue, Border Field State Park (OCT 07)
Echo Blue, Fred Canyon Road (left, MAR 07) and Pine Ridge Trail, Cuyamaca State Park (right, FEB 07)
Another Echo Blue, Pine Creek Road (MAY 07)
Female Acmon Blues along the road to Stonewall Mine, Cuyamaca State Park (SEP 06)
Male Acmon Blues, Pine Creek Road (MAY 07)
Probable female Acmon Blues along the PCT southbound from Barrel Springs (JUN 07)
Worn Acmon/Lupine Blue along Pine Creek Road (JUN 07)
Lupine (Clemence's) Blues, near Guatay (MAY 07)
Boisduval's Blue, Laguna Mountains (MAY 07)
Female Melissa Blue, near Guatay (MAY 07)
Bernardino Blues along the PCT, southbound from Barrel Springs (MAY 07)
More Bernardino Blues along Kitchen Creek Road, showing variation (MAY 07)
Sexes are the same underneath, but above they're quite different! (Females left and center; male right) Same location and date.
Courtship and mating (same location and date).
Bernardino Blue Bash (Pine Creek Road, MAY 07)
Two Bernardino Blues? The lower one reminds me of Glaucon Blue, but the jury's still out on that... (Pine Creek Road, JUN 07)
These poor guys evidently got too immersed in "mudding" (Bernardino Blues, same location and date)
