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Having a connecting flight at Changi airport in Singapore gives a good chance to take some easy pictures of butterflies in the butterfly garden inside the airport.
Top tip - allow your lenses to get warm after the flight before opening them in the 30degree, 90% humidity in the garden.
This is a female. Found in Sweden.
Wikipedia:
The scarce copper (Lycaena virgaureae) is a butterfly of the copper or gossamer-winged butterfly family.
Lycaena virgaureae lives preferably on flower-rich, dry and damp meadows in Central Europe. In Spain it is found in the Pyrenees and in the Cantabrian Mountains. In southern France it is found in the Massif Central. Its area of distribution reaches the Arctic Circle in Fennoscandia in the north; in the south it reaches north and northwest Greece. It is not found, however, on the British Isles, in Belgium, or the Netherlands. It can be found as far east as Mongolia. The scarce copper is found at elevations of 1,000 to 2,000 meters.[2]
Distinction orange coloration of the Southern European species. A levada north of Funchal, Madeira - 30th August, 2007
In a deep, shady and fresh funnel this summer I discovered butterflies love to rest and cool down, making it extremely easy to approach them and allowing you to entirely fill a frame with their colours.
Le mattinate umide sono eccezzionali, l'umidità si posa su piante e insetti, come piccoli diamanti lì avvolge, dando vita a riflessi e giochi di luce unici.