I saw the smallest blue butterfly today, I thought he was a moth! No more than 2cm across. He landed with his wings folded up and the undersides were white with very small black spots. The tips of his wings were a sky blue but a touch darker, with a thin black outline and a white edge.
I didn’t have my phone on me and he didn’t hang around long so I didn’t get a picture. When I got to my phone I googled ‘small blue butterfly ontario’ and got a Karner Blue as the first result. I’m 99.9% certain it’s exactly what I saw. However, everything I find about it says that they haven’t lived in Ontario for a while. They were confirmed extirpated in 2009
Is that information up to date or should I contact someone?
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