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.

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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.

weiblicher Aurorafalter

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

Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)

Loch Spelve, Isle of Mull

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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Viceroy butterfly surveying its domain.

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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

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

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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.

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

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.