Eastern tailed-blue

A tiny jewel of a butterfly, the eastern tailed-blue is powder blue above in the male, gray-brown in the female, and both wear a thread-like tail and a spot of orange.

It flies low over lawns, fields, and paths in several broods, one of the most common little blues of the East.

Caterpillars feed inside the flowers and pods of legumes such as clovers, vetches, and bush clovers.