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Holly blue butterfly greetings card
This A6 Holly blue butterfly greetings card is blank inside so you can add your own personal message.
The back of this A6 greetings card includes the following:
The holly blue butterfly is a small, striking species that emerges well before other blue butterflies. Its wings are pale blue with darker edges and it often flutters around holly and ivy plants, which are its primary larval food sources. These butterflies are known for their graceful flight and are an important indicator of environmental health.
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How to spot the Holly blue
Holly blues have dusty-blue wing uppersides and pale grey undersides decorated with a smattering of small, unringed black spots. The wings of females have deeper margins of black around their edges.
At a glance holly blues are very similar to other blue butterflies; particularly easily mistaken for the common blue, Polyommatus icarus. However, other blue butterflies generally fly close to the ground, while the holly blue will fly at head height or higher, gathering around host plants.
There are also subtle differences in colouration, wing spot pattern and wing margins, but this is usually not possible to discern when in flight. More information like this on the Holly Blue
