Summer Azure on virgin's bower
Celastrina neglecta
Summer Azure · Brooklyn Botanic Garden · 19 August 2026
A small blue working the small white flowers of virgin's bower, a native clematis vine, in the August border. The azures are butterflies of the eastern woods and their edges, and a late-August one in Brooklyn is the summer generation on one of its last flowers.
August timing points to Summer Azure over its near-identical spring counterpart, but the azures remain a genuinely difficult group. Several look-alike species overlap in range and season, and a fully confident call usually wants a look at the wing undersides in better light than this.
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