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  Acmon-Lupine Blue Butterfly Pictures
Acmon and Lupine blue butterfly caterpillars are adapted to rely on various wild buckwheats as host plants for their food, and Acmons also use lupine.
Acmon blues are small, having a wingspan of 3/4 to 1-1/8 inch.
The upper wing surface on males is powdery blue-- also with brown to fl on females, with an ornate orange and fl-dot arc on the hindwing.
www.bentler.us /eastern-washington/insects/acmon-blue-butterfly.aspx   (170 words)

  
 Acmon Blue Butterfly is easy to attract to a native garden.
Acmon Blue Butterfly is easy to attract to a native garden.
The Acmon Blue butterfly larvae live on a variety of food plants such as
In a native garden the adult Acmon Blue butterfly feeds on Milkweed flowers.
www.laspilitas.com /butterflies/Butterflies_and_Moths/Acmon_blue/Acmon_blue.html   (0 words)

  
  Acmon Blue Butterfly
The Acmon Blue Butterfly is a small butterfly (about 0.75 - 1 inch across) and has silvery blue wings with fl spots and an orange band.
The blue wings of the Acmon Blue in the photographs give it away as a male.
The Acmon Blue is found throughout Arizona (except in the southwest) as well as in California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico.
www.toddshikingguide.com /FloraFauna/Fauna68.htm   (144 words)

  
  Journal of The Lepidopterists' Society (JLS): 1993-47(1)8-Peterson.htm
California populations of I. acmon have four instars and larvae have both a honey gland and eversible tentacles, structures associated with myrmecophily (Ballmer and Pratt 1988).
The incidence of ant attendance1 of third and fourth instar Icaricia acmon larvae on Eriogonum compositum and £.
Because survivorship of L acmon larvae on E. strictum tended to be higher in the absence of ants, I feel that insufficient statistical power cannot explain entirely the apparent absence of a beneficial effect of ant attendance.
research.yale.edu /peabody/jls/htms/1990s/1993-47(1)8-Peterson.htm   (3178 words)

  
 Fictionwise eBooks: A Matter of Survival by Ron Hess   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Behind Trish, her boss, Harold Acmon, a man gone sour, a middle-aged man with heavy jowls jiggling on a sallow face.
Acmon was not one to forget this paper oversight, and he thought of Sam as a rebel--someone that always pushed the system, and therefore had to be watched.
Acmon curled his lips into a full smile and bent his head down.
www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/eBook20765.htm   (1276 words)

  
 Giants in Western Europe
While going through the books of the most ancient historians, Pezron learned that a prince named Acmon, the son of Maneus, headed the plundering giants, and that he had a brother named Doeas, who accompanied him on all his campaigns.
Acmon named this place in honor of Themis, his granddaughter.
After his death, however, Acmon's people still reckoned him "among the Number of the Gods," and his children continued to offer sacrifices and oblations to him.
www.stevequayle.com /Giants/W.Europe/W.Europe4.html   (1736 words)

  
 Entomology Collection > Icaricia acmon > Print
Most likely to be confused with the Rocky Mountain Dotted Blue (Euphilotes ancilla), but Acmon has shiny, metallic scales on the hindwing marginal band which are absent in ancilla.
Acmon also has smaller underside spots and a white, even uncheckered wing fringe.
A number of different subspecies have been assigned to our populations (Layberry et al, 1998, Guppy & Shepard 2001), But Norbert Kondla remarks that "Alberta Butterflies" purposely did not assign a subspecies because Alberta populations do not look like others, so it is best to not use a subspecies name until this matter is resolved.
www.museums.ualberta.ca /dig/search/ent/searching_species_print.php?c=8&rnd=13103711&s=2605&sn=   (293 words)

  
 Journal of The Lepidopterists' Society (JLS): 1969-23(1)31-Gorelick.htm
Plebejus acmon (Westwood and Hewitson) is a well-known blue that ranges from the Pacific Coast to the Great Plains, the various populations within this range varying considerably.
On May 7, 1967, eight second instar larvae of the common, widespread phenotype of P. acmon were found in the San Bruno Mountains near Colma, San Mateo County, California, skeletonizing the leaves of Eriogonum latifolium latifolium Sm.
Further evidence for the lack of host specificity by P. acmon was suggested by the ability of the larvae to feed on Trifolium (clover) in the laboratory, although this was not observed in the field.
research.yale.edu /peabody/jls/htms/1960s/1969-23(1)31-Gorelick.htm   (699 words)

  
 Entomology Collection > Icaricia acmon
Most likely to be confused with the Rocky Mountain Dotted Blue (Euphilotes ancilla), but Acmon has shiny, metallic scales on the hindwing marginal band which are absent in ancilla.
Acmon also has smaller underside spots and a white, even uncheckered wing fringe.
A number of different subspecies have been assigned to our populations (Layberry et al, 1998, Guppy & Shepard 2001), But Norbert Kondla remarks that "Alberta Butterflies" purposely did not assign a subspecies because Alberta populations do not look like others, so it is best to not use a subspecies name until this matter is resolved.
www.entomology.ualberta.ca /searching_species_details.php?c=3&b=Lepidoptera&w=+where+%28number1%3D1+or+number1%3D6+or+number1%3D10+or+number1%3D11+or+number1%3D12+or+number1%3D13+or+number1%3D15+or+number1%3D23%29+&t=browse&p=%2Fdig%2Fsearch%2Fent%2Fbrowse_list.php&s=2605&e=Icaricia+acmon&auto=1   (301 words)

  
 California native plants used by california butterflies with pictures
Eriogonum spp, Buckwheats are great nectar sources for adult butterflies and are eaten by many larva.
An Acmon Blue Butterfly Eriogonum spp, Buckwheats are loved by butterflies.
Erysimum spp., Wallflowers are used by some skipper larva.
www.laspilitas.com /butterfl.htm   (0 words)

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