Small photograph of a Small Copper Click on the image to enlarge
Roseland House
24 July 2010
Small photograph of a Small Copper Click on the image to enlarge
Roseland House
Male. 28 July 2010
Small photograph of a Small Copper Click on the image to enlarge
Mann's Cross
31 July 2009
Small photograph of a Small Copper Click on the image to enlarge
Aldeburgh, Suffolk
Blue-spotted. 15 Aug 2011
Small photograph of a Small Copper Click on the image to enlarge
Aston Rowant, Oxon
26 Aug 2012
Small photograph of a Small Copper Click on the image to enlarge
Roseland House
1 Sept 2011
Small photograph of a Small Copper Click on the image to enlarge
Roseland House
7 Sept 2012
Small photograph of a Small Copper Click on the image to enlarge
Devil's Dyke, Cambs
15 Sept 2012

The Small Copper, Lycaena phlaeas

The Small Copper is one of our less common butterflies. It can produce two or three broods per year and over-winters as a larva. The Larval food plants are Docks and Sorrel. Adults from the first brood are on the wing in late spring, from the second in July or early August and the third in early September and October. It is often seen on thistle flowers.

Internal links: Butterfly list . Main Gallery . Daily records . Aston Rowant . North Warren

External links to the Small Copper pages at: British Butterflies by Steven Cheshire . UK Butterflies by Peter Eeles
B.M. Cockayne database for forms and aberrations.

MOST SEEN ON ANY ONE DAY - Small Copper sightings at Roseland House, garden and paddock (from daily counts).
March April May June July August Sept Oct Notes
2011 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 July - early Aug v. wet. Grazing ceased in July.
2012 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 April - mid July v. wet. Aug - mid Sept dry.
2013 0 0 Winter wet, March and early April, cold.

AVERAGE SEEN PER COUNTING DAY - Small Copper sightings at Roseland House, garden and paddock (from daily counts).
March April May June July August Sept Oct Notes
2011 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.04 0
2012 0 0 0 0 0 0.03 0.1 0
2013 0 0
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20 May 2013