Small Copper

Lycaena phlaeas

Habitat:

Semi-rural, open field

Notes:

The Small Copper, American Copper, or the Common Copper (Lycaena phlaeas) is a butterfly of the Lycaenids or gossamer-winged butterfly family. Its specific name phlaeas is said to be derived either from the Greek Phlego, "to burn up" or from the Latin Floreo, "to flourish". An old individual spotted in mid June: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/275...

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11 Comments

FaredinAliyevski 10 years ago

Thanks Toshimi!

ToshimiDowaki 10 years ago

Beautiful capture!

FaredinAliyevski 10 years ago

Thanks Adarsha!

Adarsha B S 10 years ago

Lovely :)

Debbie Stewart 10 years ago

Fingers crossed :-)

FaredinAliyevski 10 years ago

Yes, lets hope this summer will increase the population numbers.

Debbie Stewart 10 years ago

unfortunately it is mainly because of agriculture and sometimes wet summers as we have a very temperate climate but the butterflies here have really benefitted from this long warm summer we have had this year, I think it is also the extremely cold winters that kill the larvae too :-(

FaredinAliyevski 10 years ago

Oh thanks Debbie, I have seen this species only twice. The previous one was too old with faded colors but this one looked perfect. In Denmark every year the number of species seen is decreasing, hopefully it's not the same there.