These pretty little butterflies are easy to spot as the males’ wings have bright orange tips – giving them their name! They are a common sight during spring and can be found in lots of places including meadows, woodland and hedges. The adults lay their eggs on special plants to ensure that their caterpillars have the right food to eat. Orange-tip caterpillars love garlic mustard, cuckooflower and hedge mustard plants.

The male orange-tip is unmistakeable: a white butterfly, half of its forewing is a bold orange, and it has light grey wingtips. The female is also white, but has grey-black wingtips, similar to the white butterflies. Both sexes show a mottled, 'mossy grey' pattern on the underside of their hindwings when at rest.

Dipladenia flower about to unfurl

Advection Frost

I have been missing in action - painting holiday cards. :)

I'll do my best to catch up in the next few days!

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.

A rainforest is an area of tall, mostly evergreen trees and a high amount of rainfall. Rainforests are Earth’s oldest living ecosystems, with some surviving in their present form for at least 70 million years. They are incredibly diverse and complex, home to more than half of the world’s plant and animal species—even though they cover just 6% of Earth’s surface. This makes rainforests astoundingly dense with flora and fauna. Rainforests’ rich biodiversity is incredibly important to our well-being and the well-being of our planet.

Padiham, Lancashire

Last years leaves can still be seen on these trees

Male Orange Tip butterfly in my garden

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Molino del Pozo de los Frailes

Se encuentra cercano al núcleo urbano del Pozo de Los Frailes, del que recibe su nombre.

Es un molino tipo mediterráneo, con una torre cilíndrica, con muros muy gruesos de mampostería de piedra o arcilla, de hasta ocho metros de altura y algunos menos de diámetro.

El rotor suele tener ocho velas latinas (de lienzo) dispuestas sobre dos planos desplazados. Lo más relevante de este molino es que presenta tres pisos: piso inferior, camarilla y piso superior.

También cuenta con dos arcos de medio punto realizados en cantería que eran los encargados de soportar el peso del piso superior. La maquinaria actual perteneció al molino de Los Martínez.

En la actualidad se encuentra restaurado y bien conservado, con la maquinaria y sin uso. De propiedad privada.

In Rathdrum 19 Apr 2021

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

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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The subject is tip . . .

Carr Mill.

Zingem 28-10-2019

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Viceroy butterfly surveying its domain.

Common.

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

Took this on a rainy/ cloudy day, so its more dull than I wanted but Im still glad I got a shot of one : )

Anthocharis cardamines

Mechanical pencil tip. A familiar item to me and used everyday.

HMM

Macro Mondays: Familiar

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.

The Orange Tips have been around in my garden for a while now but this is the only one I've seen land, fortunately I had the camera at the ready, extender and all!!

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

Martin Down, Hampshire

Old digital shot taken on a Canon EOS 40D

Happy Macro Monday

Gold glass holder creates the bokeh.

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.

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.