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Favonius quercus - Purple Hairstreak - Eikenpage - Blauer Eichenzipfelfalter

The ground colour of the upperside is sooty black, with a deep-purple or violet iridescence visible from certain angles. This sheen covers almost the whole of the male's upperside, but in the female it is confined to the basal region of the forewing. The underside is silvery grey in both sexes, with a dark-edged white streak on each wing and some small orange patches near the slender black 'tails'. Flight from June to September. The larval foodplants are normally oaks.
2016 Gallery:
Collecting eggs from a blown down oak tree
Favonius quercus - Eggs Purple Hairstreak - Eitjes Eikenpage - Eier Blauer Eichenzipfelfalter
Favonius quercus - Egg Purple Hairstreak - Ei Eikenpage - Ei Blauer Eichenzipfelfalter
Favonius quercus - emerging caterpillar Purple Hairstreak - rupsje Eikenpage - junge Raupe Blauer Eichenzipfelfalter
Favonius quercus - emerging caterpillar Purple Hairstreak - rupsje Eikenpage - junge Raupe Blauer Eichenzipfelfalter
Favonius quercus - emerging caterpillar Purple Hairstreak - rupsje Eikenpage - junge Raupe Blauer Eichenzipfelfalter
Favonius quercus - emerging caterpillar Purple Hairstreak - rupsje Eikenpage - junge Raupe Blauer Eichenzipfelfalter
Favonius quercus - emerging caterpillar Purple Hairstreak - rupsje Eikenpage - junge Raupe Blauer Eichenzipfelfalter
Favonius quercus - emerging caterpillar Purple Hairstreak - rupsje Eikenpage - junge Raupe Blauer Eichenzipfelfalter
Favonius quercus - caterpillar Purple Hairstreak one week old- rupsje Eikenpage een week oud - junge Raupe Blauer Eichenzipfelfalter eine Woche alt
Favonius quercus - caterpillar Purple Hairstreak one week old- rupsje Eikenpage een week oud - junge Raupe Blauer Eichenzipfelfalter eine Woche alt
Favonius quercus - caterpillar Purple Hairstreak 10 days old- rupsje Eikenpage 10 dagen oud - junge Raupe Blauer Eichenzipfelfalter 10 Tage alt
Favonius quercus - caterpillar Purple Hairstreak 14 days old- rupsje Eikenpage 14 dagen oud - junge Raupe Blauer Eichenzipfelfalter 14 Tage alt
Favonius quercus - caterpillar Purple Hairstreak 14 days old- rupsje Eikenpage 14 dagen oud - junge Raupe Blauer Eichenzipfelfalter 14 Tage alt
Favonius quercus - caterpillar Purple Hairstreak 19 days old- rupsje Eikenpage 19 dagen oud - junge Raupe Blauer Eichenzipfelfalter 19 Tage alt
Favonius quercus - chrysalis Purple Hairstreak - pop Eikenpage - Puppe Blauer Eichenzipfelfalter
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      • Large Ringlet
      • Large Wall Brown
      • Marbled White
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      • Pearly Heath
      • Ringlet
      • Small Heath
      • Southern Grayling
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      • Wall Brown
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