Cute Copper - _TNY_9931
The small copper (Lycaena phlaeas) is also known as the small copper, the common copper and the American copper.
Swedes perhaps value it a little higher as up here it is known as the mindre guldvinge which translates into lesser Goldwing.
And Germans instead make a different association and call it the Kleiner Feuerfalter which means small fire butterfly.
This particular copper/goldwing/fire butterfly was found by lake Sandasjön in Älta, just east of Stockholm, Sweden.
A couple of more shots of it here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52255977984/
here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52400139738/
Cute Copper - _TNY_9931
The small copper (Lycaena phlaeas) is also known as the small copper, the common copper and the American copper.
Swedes perhaps value it a little higher as up here it is known as the mindre guldvinge which translates into lesser Goldwing.
And Germans instead make a different association and call it the Kleiner Feuerfalter which means small fire butterfly.
This particular copper/goldwing/fire butterfly was found by lake Sandasjön in Älta, just east of Stockholm, Sweden.
A couple of more shots of it here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52255977984/
here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52400139738/