From a palm tree that produces small coconut like fruit. The trunk and fronds are covered with these thorns. They are up to six inches long and extremely sharp. The theme "tip" for today's Looking Close on Friday group inspired this photo.

Padiham, Lancashire

Last years leaves can still be seen on these trees

Male Orange Tip butterfly in my garden

Disgusting !!!!! - Fly tipping in Red Beck Valley

A lovely little valley and then some ********* come and dump this over a wall ......

Reported to our Local Council

Another slide restoration from the 1990s, this one showing the waste from slate mining in Wales.

Today of course, such waste is a valuable asset with many uses.

Orange tip Butterfly seen at RSPB Leighton Moss. (2123)

weiblicher Aurorafalter

Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)

Loch Spelve, Isle of Mull

did try to put the Tears for Fears track here (tipping point) but for some reason I keep on getting a bad link - so I shall hum instead -----^^

RSPB Baron's Haugh, Motherwell...have learned its best not to photograph these in bright sunshine!

Aurorafalter / Orange tip / mariposa aurora / L’Aurore

Anthocharis cardamines

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Looking close...on Friday!:-)

The subject is tip . . .

... what to do during the Corona Crisis ...

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Viceroy butterfly surveying its domain.

Common.

Captured for Looking close on Friday: Tip. HLCoF everyone!

Weekly challenge for Looking close on Friday!

Anthocharis cardamines

Px70 push, no photoshop, but two broken legs !

This male Orange Tip was taking a few minutes rest on his favourite sprig of Hawthorn, from defending his patch. Orange Tip season seems to be almost over. A shame as I love to see them in spring, and this was a bumper year for them.

A photograph of a golden tipped fence surrounding a portion of the Windsor Castle.

Anthocharis cardamines (OrangeTip) is a small butterfly belonging to the Pieridae family. They emerge in early April. The males can be easily recognized by the orange tips of their wings which the females don't possess. They can be found throughout Europe and temperate Asia as far as China.

A male orange-tip butterfly at Lineover Wood near Charlton Kings in Gloucestershire.

A Female Orange Tip butterfly (Anthocharis cardamines) on the bright pink spring flowers

Old digital shot taken on a Canon EOS 40D

As I was driving back to Anchroage from Seward I saw this mountain top. What grabbed my attention were the crisp sharp lines and angles of the snow on the mountain top.

Green Bees don't care about the petal tips, they don't have pollen or nectar on offer

bushveld purple tip/colotis ion

Sorry, can't show the purple tip, its on the inside, although with butterflies its called the upper side.

Update: iNaturalist's ID seems to be: diverse white/appias epaphia contracta www.inaturalist.org/observations/10243925

Eastern-tailed Blue butterfly taking nectar from a White Clover floret in deep grass.

As I understand things, the eye-spots and tail-like appendages are designed to mimic the insect's head. All in the hope that a predator attack there and saving the life of the butterfly. Seems to work. I've encountered specimens with that part of their wing clipped by what appears to be a bird's beak.

Common though not abundant, this year.

France; Brenne, Lignac 5/4/20

Captured for Macro Mondays theme: tea.

I love seeing the butterflies again. :)

On an errand today I had the feeling it might be worth taking the camera. Just as I was about to head back I saw this little beauty resting up on some brambles.

Despite the blown out areas I do like taking shots of these backlit as the orange just glows.

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Female Orange Tip resting on Lady's Smock.

Kingcombe Meadows, Dorset.