the small copper

Posted by rocksea on 24 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: photography, prakriti

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

 

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11 Responses to “the small copper”

1. on 24 Aug 2006 at 7:42 pm 1.Seema said …

   

   Magnificent pictures…absolutely mind bogling beauty!

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2. on 25 Aug 2006 at 1:47 am 2.sarah said …

   

   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!

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3. on 25 Aug 2006 at 2:09 am 3.sarah said …

   

   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…

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4. on 26 Aug 2006 at 8:10 pm 4.rocksea said …

   

   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".

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5. on 27 Aug 2006 at 1:30 pm 5.sarah said …

   

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

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6. on 28 Aug 2006 at 4:55 pm 6.Preethika said …

   

   Vibrant yellow…. lovely pics

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7. on 28 Aug 2006 at 8:44 pm 7.Arun Ravi said …

   

   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

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8. on 28 Aug 2006 at 10:49 pm 8.rocksea said …

   

   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

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9. on 28 Aug 2006 at 10:59 pm 9.rocksea said …

   

   hey preethika, howz chennai life going for you?

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10. on 10 Oct 2006 at 1:04 pm 10.sarah said …

    

    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.

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11. on 19 Apr 2007 at 7:14 pm 11.~sAn~ said …

    

    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

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