<i>Lycaena helle</i> (IMAGE)

Helmholtz Association

<i>Lycaena helle</i>

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Lycaena helle (Violet Copper) are declining rapidly across Europe where it breeds in damp meadows where its food plants, Polygonum species (Bistort), are abundant. It needs very light grazing, avoiding the summer breeding period from April to August.

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Chris van Swaay

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