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,,
The small copper is featured on japanese stamps also:
Of lavenders and dragonflies..
a dragonfly of the genus sympetrum @ the Lavender fields of Furano
a dragonfly of the genus sympetrum @ the Lavender fields of Furano
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 🙂
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.
hey preethika, howz chennai life going for you?
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 🙂
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
Vibrant yellow…. lovely pics
Roxy kutta!
that was a good explanation. Intersting how some words originate!
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".
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…
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!
Magnificent pictures…absolutely mind bogling beauty!