Status: rare resident?
Flights: 1, Mar-Jun?
Distribution/known sites in Monterey County: historical records only; no known sites or recent records
Habitats: coastal dunes; open meadows, gentle slopes, sagebrush flats with stands of lupine
Host plants: lupines and milkvetch (Astragalus)
Adult food: flower nectar
Conservation: pops. in s. CA need assessment
Remarks:
• often flies with Boisduval’s blue
• fem. duller, variable orange on wing margins
Arrowhead blue Glaucopsyche piasus
Life history facts
egg: laid on flower buds of host plant
larva: feed on flowers and fruit
pupa: hibernates
adult: males patrol near host plant
awaiting photo