Caption

Towards the sun... Small copper (Lycaena phlaeas), butterfly, belongs to the blue butterflies, warms up, shortly in front of take-off, opens its wings, shows underside of wings, native nature, Rhineland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Western Europe

Date

Jun 30, 2025

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/wunderbare Erde Gordana & Ralf Kistowski

Reference

BRK25M97_161

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

30,9Mb (592,4Kb) / 13,4in x 9,0in / 4028 x 2685 (300dpi)

Keywords

deserted heat departure Butterfly Insect wing animal sunlight sun nature North Rhine-Westphalia German wildlife Europe diurnal butterfly underside Gossamer winged butterfly start open european Rhineland Germany wildlife photography natural environment flying insect Central Europe Small copper Western europe underside of the casement Lycaeninae no one warm up taking off Lepidopteran sunshine open air NRW fauna Gossamer-winged butterfly German Federal Republic habitat pterygote insect Middle Europe American copper underside of wing coppers No People heat up take-off Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia Republic of Germany natural habitat Common copper nobody warm flying off North-Rhine Westphalia FRG uninhabited warm-up empty heating departures Butterflies Insects wings animals diurnal butterflies undersides Gossamer winged butterflies starting opening starts natural environments flying insects Small coppers warming up pterygote insects heating up warming flying from BRD sun lights Europe's opens warms up heats up warms