Frontal view of a small copper butterfly (Lycaena phlaeas) warming its wings after spending the night on a plantain seed head in a damp meadow habitat

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Frontal view of a small copper butterfly (Lycaena phlaeas) warming its wings after spending the night on a plantain seed head in a damp meadow habitat. Photographed in Somerset, UK, in September.

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Photo credit: © HEATH MCDONALD/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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