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Orange-Tip Butterfly(Anthocharis cardamines)

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Taken while walking round Thruscross Reservoir. North Yorkshire

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Anthocharis cardamines, the orange tip, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae, which contains 1100 species of butterfly. A. cardamines is mainly found throughout Europe and temperate Asia The males feature wings with a signature orange pigmentation, which is the origin of A. cardamines' common name. Wikipedia

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Uploaded on May 31, 2021
Taken on May 29, 2021