Spalding's Dotted-blue, Female emerging from pupa-  Euphilotes spaldingi
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pupa just opening female climbing out of the pupa

walking up the host plant

wings not yet pumped out

a different female having trouble getting to the top

pumping liquid into the wings to straighten and strengthen them

letting wings dry and strengthen




Photo Details -
Larva collected September 16, 2006, North of Gun Club on Wasatch Blvd., Salt Lake County, Utah. 

Female eclosed October 18, 2006
1. through 7.  Photos of female spaldingi eclosing.  Photo in third row, left,  is of a female that eclosed October 16, 2006 that had a little trouble getting to the top of the plant and her wings got a bit lop-sided on the way up. 


Host Plant
For photos of host plant, click on  Redroot Buckwheat -  Eriogonum racemosum

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