Hairstreak

The point was brought home to me last summer when I saw a purple hairstreak. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The purple emperor may have eluded us, but this purple hairstreak is a rewarding compensation. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Wetter areas are home to the silken surfaces of green-veined whites, while some heathlands host the dazzling green hairstreak. ❋ Unknown (2011)

When Matthew Oates, the National Trust's roving butterfly expert, first described this affliction, it sounded quite pleasant: by August, butterfly lovers are so knackered, all they can do is sit in an armchair and wait for the last butterfly of summer, the brown hairstreak, to descend from an ash tree. ❋ Patrick Barkham (2010)

It seems extraordinary how I could have passed 30 years in the middle of purple hairstreak country having only seen a singleton. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The purple hairstreak is a glorious but relatively small butterfly strongly associated with oaks. ❋ Unknown (2011)

As if to confirm this, a green hairstreak butterfly appeared and its green-gold brilliance together with the cowslips seemed to fill the column of air above that place with a burst of light. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Two green hairstreak butterflies, gracefully viridescent, dance past on a soft wind that sifts through reeds, sets waving the tall golden flower stems of bog asphodel, and silky white plumes of cottongrass that has colonised the old peat-diggings. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Wildlife spotted in East SussexButterflies (13) meadow brown; hedge brown; speckled wood; essex skipper; small skipper; large skipper; comma; small tortoiseshell; large white; small white; green-veined white; purple hairstreak; white admiral ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the past three years two other species, the holly blue and purple hairstreak, have been spotted for the first time on National Trust properties in Scotland. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Veronica ‘Sunny Border Blue’ has attracted a hairstreak butterfly. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He also mentioned a butterfly, the elusive white letter hairstreak, whose food plant is elm. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

Its leaves play occasional host to the larvae of viceroy, striped hairstreak, and Canadian tiger swallowtail butterflies. ❋ Pooky (2009)

As was mentioned in this post, one of butterflies I photographed last weekend was a Strymon melinus gray hairstreak. ❋ AYDIN (2008)

Hi Skeeter, thanks for ID on the skipper and hairstreak. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The next one, also photographed in Seneca Creek State Park was easier to identify: Strymon melinus gray hairstreak. ❋ AYDIN (2008)

Look out for the purple hairstreak at the top of oak trees. ❋ Unknown (2011)