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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.
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.
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.
Aurorafalter / Orange tip / mariposa aurora / L’Aurore
Anthocharis cardamines
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This Spitfire has had its elliptical wing tips removed to improve roll rate at low level. It is not an LF model which had a modified supercharger to improve engine performance at low level. LFs often had their wing tips removed too, for the same reason, but absence of wing tips is not definitive of LF models. From 1942, this Spitfire served with RAF No 310 (Czech) squadron, hence the additional Czech roundel. This weekend was to be the Shuttleworth air show, now cancelled, so this picture is from last year's show.
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!!
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.
Handheld 7 image pano, not fit enough for lugging the tripod. What you don't get is the scale, some 300 ft up here, the sheer noise, and smell of the birds and the never ceasing wind.
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?
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.