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Volume 28 Number 13 08 July 2009
Still got the blues for you - Mating common blues (Polyommatus icarus) on ribwort in a field in Tuscany, Italy.
The picture was taken with a Canon 400D and Sigma 105 mm lens by Tobias Dansen, a researcher at the University Medical Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Some of his photographs can be found at the Buiten-beeld photo agency (www.buiten-beeld.nl).
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