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.

Anthocharis cardamines

Spotted on my weekly transect walk at King's Meadow Reserve in Nottingham (UK) - the only sighting on an uninspiring cool, breezy day (0203).

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.

21 april 2021

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.

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

weiblicher Aurorafalter

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

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

Just enough snow to give this bison frosted tips 😊

Looking close...on Friday!:-)

The subject is tip . . .

Because they find prey using the sensitive tips of their bills, and not just eyesight, Willets can feed both during the day and at night.

Aurorafalter / Orange tip / mariposa aurora / L’Aurore

Anthocharis cardamines

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Carr Mill.

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orange tip butterfly / Aurorafalter

A freshly emerged female, nectaring on Forget-me-nots - soon attracting attention from a number of amorous males (Nottingham, UK) (1681).

buff-tip

Antwerp Series No 34

Anthocharis cardamines

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.

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.

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!!

Black-necked Grebe, Podiceps nigricollis

Another one from last year, hidden on the hard drive.

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

Auroraperhonen; Orange Tip; Anthocharis cardamines

One of my attempts at the "Looking Close... on Friday" theme "Tip".

Shot with a Topcon "Macro-Topcor 30 mm F 3.5" lens on a Canon EOS R5.

in the time of corona.

the dogs dig. everything has a tendency to be askew.

**I put the same photo in b&w tones below.

which do you like best, this one or the one below in comments?

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.

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

I love seeing the butterflies again. :)