Kebnat
INSECTS

Eastern Tailed-Blue

Everes comyntas

Insects
Native
Eastern Tailed-Blue, Adult
Eastern Tailed-Blue, Male
Eastern Tailed-Blue, Female

Butterfly or moth in the family Lycaenidae.

There are 192 observations of Eastern Tailed-Blue in Québec, mostly in Montérégie, Montréal and Mauricie, and it has been reported in 11 of the 17 regions. They peak in August.

Through the year

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Where to see it

  1. Montérégie53
  2. Montréal41
  3. Mauricie36
  4. Outaouais27
  5. Estrie12
  6. Centre-du-Québec10
  7. Laurentides5
  8. Lanaudière4
  9. Capitale-Nationale2
  10. Chaudière-Appalaches1
  11. Laval1

What the caterpillar eats

Garden vetchVicia sativa
Cream peaLathyrus ochroleucus
Black medickMedicago lupulina
TOXIC
White cloverTrifolium repens
Bird vetchVicia cracca
Field melilotMelilotus officinalis
Alsike cloverTrifolium hybridum
Roundhead lespedezaLespedeza capitata
Red cloverTrifolium pratense
American vetchVicia americana
DEADLY
Winter vetchVicia villosa

Similar species

Summer AzureCelastrina neglecta
Gray HairstreakStrymon melinus
Western Tailed-blueEveres amyntula
Spring AzureCelastrina ladon
Silvery BlueGlaucopsyche lygdamus
Common BluePolyommatus icarus
Northern AzureCelastrina lucia
Small WhitePieris rapae
Acadian HairstreakSatyrium acadica
Coral HairstreakSatyrium titus
Banded HairstreakSatyrium calanus