North Atlantic Skyline

By: John Smyth

Sep 10 2009

Category: "john smyth", brigit's garden, butterfly, fern, galway, ireland, moycullen, small copper

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A Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas) resting on a fern in Brigit’s garden in Galway. As the ferns change into their autumn colours, the colour of the Small Copper butterfly is ideal camouflage.

Apropos of nothing, other examples of camouflage here or here.