American Copper
 Lycaena phlaeas feildeni
Adult Female Emerging

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Adult just after emerging from pupa
Adult just after emerging from pupa
Adult just after emerging from pupa
just after emerging

Adult inflating wings
inflating wings

Adult inflating wings
inflating wings

Adult inflating wings
inflating wings

Adult inflating wings
inflating wings

Adult inflating wings
inflating wings

Adult inflating wings
inflating wings

Adult turned right side up, still  inflating wings
turned right side up, still inflating wings

Adult turned right side up, still  inflating wings
drying wings
 
Photo Details - ©Nicky Davis
LOCATION: Female located by Jack Harry at Iqaluit, Nunavut Territory, Canada, July 2009
lat 63.76, lon -68.52
ELEVATION: 278 feet

Butterfly eclosed 5:24 P.M. 21 August 2009.  It seemed to like  hanging upside down on the twig.

OVA
Females oviposited on Alpine Mountain Sorrel, Oxyria digyna

LIFE HISTORY:
Ovum:  unknown, these were chilled toretard rate of development
Larva:  14 to 19 days including the pre-pupa stage
Pupa:  6-7 days
Adult:  unknown
Broods: 1  brood for this ssp. but several in other ssp.  in different locations depending on hours of sunlight and temperature determining availability of host plants. per "Butterflies of North America"  James A. Scott.
Hibernation:  Overwinter as half grown larvae per "Butterflies of North America"  James A. Scott.

Larval Host Plant
  I fed them Curly Dock, Rumex crispus

Mountain sorrel, Alpine Sorrel, Oxyria digyna (pronounced ox-ear-ee-ah    dih-'guy-nah)

Curly Dock, Rumex crispus  (pronounced 'roo (as in boo) - meks     KRIS-pus

Sheep sorrel, Rumex acetosella  (pronounced 'roo (as in boo) - meks     ass-eh-TOW-sell-ah or eh-seat-oh-sell=ah

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