December 5, 2025

I am a Ceraunus Blue Butterfly

I'm tiny but not in the least self conscious

Take a close look at how I can curl up

My otherwise very long proboscis!

(In the second picture, notice how is little proboscis is ever so neatly coiled up!)

Location: Osprey Acres Stormwater Park, Vero

Sources: https://askentomologists.com/2016/02/29/on-the-tip-of-the-butterflys-tongue/

Photo and text © 2025 Dee Fairbanks Simpson

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October 12, 2023

I am a female Ceraunus Blue butterfly

I'm tiny and hard to photograph

I fly really fast and dart all around

And I'm not blue like my better half.

Location: Goodwin Waterfowl Management Area, Fellsmere

Sources: https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/bfly/ceraunus_blue.htm

Photo and text © 2023 Dee Fairbanks Simpson

December 15, 2022

I am a male Ceraunus Blue butterfly

You know I'm male cause my topside is lavender

You can find me throughout the southern US

And in Florida, for all 12 months on the calendar.

Location: Fort Pierce Inlet State Park

Sources: https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/bfly/ceraunus_blue.htm

Photo and text © 2022 Dee Fairbanks Simpson

March 2, 2021

I am a male Ceraunus Blue butterfly

I fly around when it's warm looking for a mate

She will lay eggs on a flower

And our caterpillars will emerge at a later date.

Location: Indian River Lagoon Preserve State Park

Sources: https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Hemiargus-ceraunus

Photo and text © 2021 Dee Fairbanks Simpson

December 1, 2020

I am known as Ceraunus Blue,

I like to live in scrubs, roadsides and yards.

I can be found throughout all of Florida

But I'm tiny, so finding me can be hard.

Location: St. Sebastian River Preserve State Park, Fellsmere

Sources: http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/bfly/ceraunus_blue.htm

Photo and text © 2020 Dee Fairbanks Simpson

June 14, 2020

Location: Little League Park, Sebastian

I am known as Ceraunus Blue, 

I'm a Neotropical butterfly

This means that I live in the "tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone"¹

Science does not always make a good rhyme.

(1) Wikipedia, Neotropical

Sources: UF | IFAAS Featured Creatures Ceraunus Blue

Photo and text © 2020 Dee Fairbanks Simpson

August 10, 2019

Location: Melbourne, Hundred Acre Hollows

I am a Florida Ceraunus Blue butterfly
I look grey, but my inner wings are blue
I have one eyespot on my hind wing
If I was from the southwest, there'd be two.

Sources: Butterflies and Moths of North America - Ceraunus Blue

Photo and text © 2018 Dee Fairbanks Simpson