Good morning sweet Spring Azure! Look for these tiny one-inch wide wingspan butterflies drinking nectar from the flowers of crabapple, Common Milkweed, blackberry, dandelion, violet and many more spring bloomers.

The female deposits her eggs on a variety of woody shrubs and trees including dogwood (native Cornus florida, not the non-native Korean Kousa), viburnum, blueberry, sumac, and cherry. In our garden, the females mostly oviposit eggs around the pale pink buds of our native Meadowsweet (Spirea alba var. latifolia).