Advection Frost

Dipladenia flower about to unfurl

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.

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.

My attempt at the "Looking Close... on Friday" theme "Tip".

Shot with a Schneider Kreuznach "Makro-Symmar 120 mm F 5.9 Makro-Iris" lens on a Canon EOS R5.

Sofitel Chicago Magnificent Mile ~ Gold Coast ~ Chicago, Illinois

Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 125, f/11.0, 24mm, 1/500s

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 -----^^

Orange tip (Anthocharis cardamines) butterfly on Lady's smock (Cardamine pratensis).

Just enough snow to give this bison frosted tips 😊

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 . . .

These majestic, gentle giants live in grasslands and savannahs. Originally native to Africa, they are now established in Europe, North America, South America and Australia. Their horns can span 8 ft from tip to tip. Seen in the Houston Zoo.

Carr Mill.

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

Male on Lady's Smock

You can just see the orange edge of this male Orange Tip wing, the first one of the year for me. This was taken late yesterday afternoon, it was to cold for it to fly, and as the temperatures went down to -4 here last night it was still there this morning. It hasn't got much better through the day, and it is still there now on the end of this white lilac bud,

Anthocharis cardamines

Rusty-tipped page (Siproeta epaphus) or brown siproeta, is a New World butterfly that lives all year in tropical habitats. Seen at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park's Butterfly Jungle

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

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

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

Coronavirus Lockdown Garden Macro of an everyday plant...first attempt with 36mm tube and Sigma 85m F1.4 Art. (I expect there will be a lot of people doing this at the moment)

Clerodendrum quadriloculare, otherwise known as the Q-tip plant, is a species of flowering plant native to New Guinea and the Philippines. When I initially spotted this flowering plant in Hawaii, I assumed that it was man-made. What a delight to discover that it was real!