Spring Azure,  Female - Polyommatinae (Sub-Family) Celastrina ladon echo==Celastrina echo
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Big Cottonwood Canyon - Larva located June 22, 2006 - Hibernated as pupa  from August 2006 to January 19, 2007 - Eclosed January 24, 2007
















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Goshen Canyon

Photo Details - ©Nicky Davis Big Cottonwood Canyon Larva located June 22, 2006 on Wild Lilac - Ceanothus velutinus. Butterfly emerged January 24, 2007 1. thru 7.  Several views of the adult female Goshen Canyon Butterfly located May 7, 2006 at Goshen Canyon,  Utah County, Utah Canon 20D, 100mm lens, 1/250, ISO 200, F16, Flash +2/3 Flight: Can be from January to July  depending on location and altitude Host Plants .  Flowers of Wild Lilac - Ceanothus velutinus, Dogwood, buckeye and waxflower in the west. In the east, dogwood, viburnum and cherry flowering parts. Northern on blueberries and cherry.  Atlantic use hollies. There is also a cherry gall population that uses cherry galls made by eriophyid mites but also uses flowers of the black cherry or choke cherry. For available photos of host plants, click on RED OSIER DOGWOOD    WILD LILAC - Ceanothus velutinus Back to Top