the small copper

The Small Copper or the Common Copper, Lycaena phlaeas Family: Lycaenidae. After the peacock, herez a small, colorful butterfly.. it is widespread and common across Europe, Asia and North America.. The crimson fire like patterns at the edges of the hind wings add to its magnificence..maybe that is why it is known as beni shijimi in japanese as beni means red. A long shot and a close up is featured here,,
 
small-copper-butterfly-1 * The Small Copper or the Common Copper, Lycaena phlaeas Family: Lycaenidae. Known as beni shijimi. beni means red in japanese. Widespread and common across Europe, Asia and North America.. * The Small Copper or the Common Copper, Lycaena phlaeas Family: Lycaenidae. Known as beni shijimi. beni means red in japanese. Widespread and common across Europe, Asia and North America.. * 1024 x 766 * (268KB)
small-copper-butterfly-2 * The Small Copper or the Common Copper, Lycaena phlaeas Family: Lycaenidae. Known as beni shijimi. beni means red in japanese. Widespread and common across Europe, Asia and North America.. * The Small Copper or the Common Copper, Lycaena phlaeas Family: Lycaenidae. Known as beni shijimi. beni means red in japanese. Widespread and common across Europe, Asia and North America.. * 1024 x 766 * (174KB)beni shijimi
 
The small copper is featured on japanese stamps also:
 
 
 
 
Of lavenders and dragonflies..
a dragonfly of the genus sympetrum @ the Lavender fields of Furano
 
sympetrum-lavender * of lavenders and dragonflies.. a dragonfly of the genus sympetrum @ the Lavender fields of Furano * of lavenders and dragonflies.. a dragonfly of the genus sympetrum @ the Lavender fields of Furano * 1024 x 766 * (192KB)

11 Responses

  1. ~sAn~ says:

    Nice pics, which is the place?
    If u r interested in butterfly photography, u might want to to visit the Butterfly park @ Bannerghatta, Bangalore or the one near Karanji lake in Mysore 🙂

  2. sarah says:

    why don’t the ‘skin’ of insects like butterflies, bees and dragonflies not ‘decay’? I found a dragonfly the other day, pretty intact in it’s body and a few bees and some butterflies too. i found butterflies are more delicate. But the ants dont want the bees.

  3. rocksea says:

    hey preethika, howz chennai life going for you?

  4. rocksea says:

    hey thanks arun ravi, i haven’t visisted that site. seems to be an organized one, good for a general study. will go through it. anyways for endemic (region specific) species, i would have to check with websites of those regions, like japanese in this case and sometimes it makes the identification and details a bit difficult 🙂

  5. Arun Ravi says:

    Hey Roxy,
    You will be familiar with this site. yet,when i see it, i remembered you. http://www.insects.org . An etymology section also is there, which may help your discussion. http://insects.org/ced4/etymology.html

  6. Preethika says:

    Vibrant yellow…. lovely pics

  7. sarah says:

    Roxy kutta! that was a good explanation. Intersting how some words originate!

  8. rocksea says:

    seema, 🙂

    sarah kutti, many of the japanese butterflies have appeared on stamps, so this must be one of them.

    According to wikipedia, the Old English word for butterfly was buttor-fleoge apparently because butterflies were thought to steal milk. This is believed to have led to the evolution of its present name form – butterfly. Earlier, it was mistakenly considered that the word butterfly came from a metathesis of "flutterby".

  9. sarah says:

    oops! just as i am here, a big butterfly looking moth entered my room fluttering around!!! woah…saving my head…where’s it now?
    :D. is it true that these creatures were actually named Flutterbys…but since it was more or less like a tongue twister, it became butterflies? er… not quite i feel! woosh, it came back again…on my computer now…

  10. sarah says:

    Really, pictures worth accolades!!!
    Is Small Copper found in abundance in Japan? or is it of any significance? ‘coz it has found it’s way into the stamp too!

  11. Seema says:

    Magnificent pictures…absolutely mind bogling beauty!

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