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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.
One from the archives for the Looking Close on Friday theme of tip. I have no idea what the plant is!
Looking Close... on Friday: Tip
On tonight's episode of "Cats Are Perfect": the ear! This delicate, soft little ear possesses 32 muscles (we poor humans only have 6) and allows cats to keep their balance, move their ears 180°, and of course hear 5 times better than us. It never ceases to amaze me how these little killing machines with superfeline powers can be so graceful, elegant, beautiful... and so, so cute! (Incidentally, the cuteness is... not incidental. They share baby-like features with lots of baby animals, which makes us subconsciously attracted to them. But these devious little monsters have also managed to tune their purring to a human baby's cries, triggering our instinct to protect, help... and smooch. We are being totally manipulated. And we love that.)
Giant Swallowtail butterfly taking nectar from a wild Coneflower.
Common though not so abundant this year.
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 -----^^
When in the country I use to find antlers that had been shed, trick is to beat the field mice to the prize. That is my tip of the day on getting antler tips.
A Male Orange tip butterfly settles on a Cuckooflower which is the main food plant for the caterpillar of this species
Janolus savinkini, common name purple-tipped janolus, is a colorful sea slug, an arminina (a suborder of Janolus) nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Proctonotidae. The body and caruncle of this species are yellow with a hue of light orange. The papillae and cerata are also this colour except for the tips, which are blue/purple, hence the common name. (Wikipedia) Anilao, South Luzon, Philippines
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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.
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.
Looking Close on Friday: tip
Methinks I’ll stop now- this one is pretty darn good!! Sometimes my little iPhone acquits itself nicely!!
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The remains of a hortensia flower, a little bit of one of the flowers is still holding on.
Happy looking close....on Friday!
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I took a roundabout route back east from Wisconsin to try my luck with the Toledo, Peoria & Western. Since the mid 80's I have tried and tried to catch something along US24 between Logansport and Peoria to help make for a better trip west or coming back east with literally no success. How could there never be a moving train along this stretch of rails?
On this day, I got lucky. This TP&W job was coming west through Sheldon, IL, and could have been easily missed if I had not turned off US24 to check out Kentland grain to see if their original critters were still around,(they are not), and there it was, creeping along at 10mph over the KB&S diamond! A quick turn around and a short chase to the west began. Seen west of Sheldon where the Tip-Up crosses Kankakee, Beaverville & Southern's line to Danville our westbound eases by. I can now check this off the list, even though I will continue to use 24 as a favorite ride to the west.