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Detailed close up of a Scarce Copper butterfly, Lycaena virgaureae. Sitting on a green leaf, glowing in summer sunlight
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.
Lycaena dispar butterfly on a flower in the wild
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.
Orange butterflies perched on leaves
Butterfly - Scarce Copper (Lycaena virgaureae) male on white flower in Poland.
Morning dew leaves and red butterfly in natural area, Large copper, Lycaena dispar
Aricia artaxerxes or Northern brown argus.
Detailed close up of a bright orange colored butterfly, Lycaena dispar. Sitting on a yellow flower
Ducat butterfly, Summer in the Eifel,Germnay.
Western Pygmy-Blue butterfly (Brephidium exilis), California
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The scarce copper (Lycaena virgaureae) on Carduus (thistle)
Brenthis daphne, the marbled fritillary, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.\nDescription:\nBrenthis daphne has a wingspan of 30–44 millimeters. Wings are rather rounded, the basic color of the upper side of the forewings is bright orange, with an incomplete black marginal band. The underside of the hindwings have a yellowish postdiscal band and the marginal area is completely suffused with purple, with a marble effect (hence the common name).  The quadrangular patch on the underside hindwing is partially shaded orange pink to outer side. The chrysalis has two dorsal rows of thorns with bright spots and a bright metallic shine.\nThis species is very similar to the lesser marbled fritillary (Brenthis ino), but the latter is slightly smaller and the coloration of said patch is completely yellow.\nBiology:\nThe butterfly flies from late May to early August depending on the location. The eggs are laid separately in July on the leaves of the host plants. The larvae feed on brambles (Rubus fruticosus), raspberry (Rubus idaeus), Rubus caesius, Rubus sachalinensis, Sanguisorba officinalis and Filipendula species, while adults usually feed on nectar from brambles, thistles and other flowers. This species is univoltine. It overwinters at the caterpillar stage in the egg shell. \nDistribution and habitat:\nThis widespread species is present in the Palearctic ecozone from the southern parts of the continental Europe (northern Spain, southern France, Germany, Italy and eastwards to Slovakia and Greece), up to Caucasus, western Siberia. It prefers warm and sunny forest edges, woodland and bushy areas where the host plants grow, at an elevation of 75–1,750 meters above sea level (source Wikipedia).\n\nThis Picture is made during a Vacation in Bulgaria in May 2018.
Common copper butterfly on white wildflower.
Common brown butterfly feeding on a wild flower
beautiful little tender brown butterfly sits on a white yarrow flower
Abstract of a Small copper butterfly and a Large Skipper butterfly over Oregano plants.
This orange butterfly is in nature in sunny summer day. Green plants are growing around the butterfly.
About the size of a fingernail, a tiny, Western pygmy blue butterfly enjoys Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge in Denver, Colorado.
Butterfly (Lycaena virgaureae) - a species of day butterfly from the Lycaenidae familyclose-up photography, Poland
Close-up butterfly, sallow DOF
A male Large copper butterfly (Lycaena dispar) on a green leaf.
A Small Copper with open wings nectaring on flower head
Orange and red cute Common Copper butterfly (Benishijimi,  Lycaena phlaeas, summer type sunny green leaf top close up macro photography)
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.
Butterfly Large copper (Lycaena dispar) crawling on a leaf of green grass. Close up shot.
red butterfly on the green grass
Small copper butterfly on Oregano flower.
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