Life is Blue!

Let's find all the blue organisms in the Tree of Life! Join the community to add your own discoveries.

You can also create your own blue-themed collections and add the whole collection to the community focus collection. Here are a few suggestions for your inspiration:


  • blue beetles, birds, frogs, butterflies, fish, jellyfish, fungi, flowers etc.
  • birds with blue heads, lizards with blue tongues, insects with blue wings, plants with blue fruits, etc.
  • animals that are blue only as juveniles, or only as adults, or only during mating season
  • animals where only one of the sexes is blue
  • blueing mushrooms
  • organisms that get their blue color from azulene
  • blue organisms with iridophores

Community icon: Predators vs. Sardines by John Loo.


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    Katja Schulz

    EOL content hunter & gatherer

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    Cyndy Parr

    Jackdaw of all trades

    Joined over 1 year ago • 3 Comments

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    Nathan Wilson

    EOL Director of Biodiversity Informatics

    Joined over 1 year ago • 0 Comments

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    Jennifer Hammock

    Joined over 1 year ago • 0 Comments

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    Ekin Dinc

    Joined over 1 year ago • 0 Comments

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    Marie Studer

    Beekeeper for fun

    Joined over 1 year ago • 2 Comments

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    Kristen Lans

    Life is Good!

    Joined over 1 year ago • 0 Comments

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    Christian Goyos Goyos

    Im a Student interested in Microbiology, Botany, Herpetology and molecular biology

    Joined over 1 year ago • 0 Comments

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    Claire Badgley

    Joined over 1 year ago • 0 Comments

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    bilal.njr

    Joined over 1 year ago • 0 Comments

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    Jim Croft

    Biogeek, bureaucrat, botanist, in search of the meaning of leaf.

    Joined over 1 year ago • 0 Comments

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    Yahya Gaafar

    Joined about 1 year ago • 0 Comments

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    Bs Baybay

    Joined about 1 year ago • 0 Comments

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    Douglas Mutay

    A l’affut de connaissance sur le règne animal

    Joined about 1 year ago • 0 Comments

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    Dominique Tchemy Outouen

    The creeping green plant

    Joined 12 months ago • 1 Comment

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    Carol Boston

    Joined 12 months ago • 0 Comments

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    Christy King

    Joined 10 months ago • 0 Comments

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    Roshmi Rekha Sarma

    Joined 9 months ago • 0 Comments

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    Thomas Musselwhite

    Joined 8 months ago • 0 Comments

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    Julie Stahlhut

    Antenna-head and DNA barcoding enthusiast.

    Joined 7 months ago • 0 Comments

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    Maria Cathrina Busbus

    Biophile :)

    Joined 3 months ago • 0 Comments

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    Jeff Holmes

    EOL L+E Digital Learning Editor

    Joined about 1 month ago • 1 Comment