Skipper

MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 11:10 am

Winter and snow finally arrived to Europe.
Home warm home.

I've searched my photo archives and found this nice skipper from my last year Canyon Kamacnik hike.

Camera model Olympus SP-320
Date/time 01.07.2006/09:50:53
Exposure time 1/800 s
F-number f/3.2
ISO 64
Focal length 8 mm

Erland R.N. · Post by **Erland R.N.** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 11:49 am

Nice photo of this small and interesting butterfly.

Here in Denmark we hardly had any freezing temperatures this winter, except the last five days, where everything is covered in snow. Very unusual

Bruce Williams · Post by **Bruce Williams** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 12:21 pm

An excellent photo Nikola. Interesting hexagonal eye-shape - appears to be flat, or is that just an optical effect

I think its a Small Skipper isn't it?

Bruce

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:50 pm

AAAHHHHH Spring is just around the corner. Going to be around -18C (-2F) tonight here in New Hampshire USA.....the coldest it has been so far.
http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/fin ... uery=03431

MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 3:07 pm

Thanks folks!

Bruce, I'm not sure about exact species and can't remember much about eye features but as I remember he was literally small.

Weather here.

Bruce Williams · Post by **Bruce Williams** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 4:48 pm

Nikola,

My apologies for using the British common name "Small Skipper" in my last posting

. Of course Thymelicus sylvestris is likely have a different common name in different countries .

For my own interest, I checked its distribution and although absent from Ireland, it is almost universal throughout the rest of Europe as far north as the Baltic States and Denmark and east to the Urals. Also in North Africa and the Middle East.

Bruce

MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:15 pm

It's OK Bruce.

I knew you ment by "small" a kind of skipper, not an attribute.

Thanks for ID and information!