Smallest Butterfly, Big World – Western Pygmy Blue on Heliotrope

A Western Pygmy Blue (Brephidium exilis), one of the world’s smallest butterflies, rests delicately on the coastal heliotrope (Heliotropium curassavicum). This tiny but tough species thrives in salty or disturbed habitats and adds a subtle flicker of copper to sunlit greenery. Captured in a moment of quiet pollination.