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Small Copper Butterfly on Fleabane on a summers day.

Untouched nature. When a small piece of cultivated land is left alone for a year during the summer, a remarkable transformation takes place. wildflowers begins to emerge, painting the landscape with vibrant hues. Native plants reclaim their territory and bring biodiversity back to the area. Buried seeds from seasons past awaken, shooting up.

Macro image of an insect on a Ragwort plant.

The small copper butterfly is known for its territorial behavior, often chasing away intruders from its chosen patch of sunlight. Quite the feisty little flyer!

Small Copper butterfly (Lycaena phlaeas).

Lycaena phlaeas sur fleur non identifiée.

A Small Copper with open wings nectaring on flower head

Ducat butterfly, Summer in the Eifel,Germnay.

Small copper butterfly Lycaena phlaeas feeding on a thistle

$Lycaena phlaeas is a common resident in the Netherlands. \nHabitat: The species inhabits a variety of places, including rather nutrient-poor, dry grasslands, gardens, roadside verges, Heathland and coastal dunes, generally these are dry areas with sheltered, sunny spots. Surprisingly, however, the highest densities are found in wet, nutrient-poor grassland.\nDistribution: Its distribution hardly changed during the 20th century.\nFlying Season: The Small Copper flies in three generations from the end of April until the end of September and hibernates as a half-grown caterpillar.\n\n\nThis is a quite common species in the described Habitats in the Netherlands.$

A small copper butterfly bathes in the sunlight on yellow flowers in the meadow.

Small copper butterfly on Oregano flower.

Lesser Fiery Copper Butterfly / Latin species name: Lycaena thersamon

The small, bright butterfly on the flowers of the blackberry plant.

Macro shot of a small copper (lycanaena phlaeas) butterfly

Butterfly - Scarce Copper (Lycaena virgaureae) male on white flower in Poland.

A bright orange butterfly (Lycaenidae - Lycaena virgaureae) drinks nectar on a flower.

$Lycaena helle, the violet copper, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found from the Pyrenees to northern Norway and from Belgium east across the Palearctic to Central Asia, Siberia and Amur.The wingspan is 24–26 mm. The butterfly flies from May to July depending on the location.\nDescription from Seitz:\nC. amphidamas Esp. (= xanthe Lang, helle Schiff.). Smaller than the preceding forms, at the most as large as small phlaeas. Upperside dark brown, in the females of the spring brood the disc of the forewing reddish yellow, both wings with a sky-blue gloss, which is especially strong in the sun in live specimens. On the underside there is before the red submarginal band of the hindwing an always distinct bluish white lunate band, which in the female is usually continued on to the forewing and is accompanied by black dots. The summer-form obscura Ruhl is darker above and more yellow beneath. Otherwise the variability is less than in other Chrysophanus. Specimens from the high North have been separated as lapponica Backhaus, and Wheeler mentions that the gloss is more blue in some districts and more violet in others. — In Central and North Europe, from Belgium, Baden, and Switzerland eastward to Amurland and northward to Scandinavia and Lapland, sporadic and absent from large districts. \nEggs are laying in June and autumn on Polygonum bistorta (said to occur also on Rumex). The butterflies are on the wing in May and again in July and August in damp meadows, very plentiful at their flight-places. In the north the species is found especially in the plains, while in the south of its area it is more plentiful in the mountains, where it occurs up to 2000m (source Wikipedia). \nNowadays vulnerable in the South of Belgium and the Eifel.\n\nThis Picture is made during a long weekend in the Eifel (Germany) in June 2019.$

Lycaena phlaeas butterfly with bright tones reflected by the midday sun in the Gaianes lagoon, Spain

Abstract of a Small copper butterfly and a Large Skipper butterfly over Oregano plants.

A low angled view of a Small Copper Butterfly resting on heather with wings open in sunlight

Small Copper Butterfly gracing a Thistle flower.

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