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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.
La foto no tiene nada de surrealista, pero como se trata de un gato y la foto está tomada en un pueblo alpujarreño, pensé: “un gato andaluz” y se me vino a las mientes la película de Buñuel de parecido título (cuatro patas, rabo, orejas tipo radar… que uno ladre y el otro maúlle es una menudencia sin importancia); de ahí el título.
En muchos lugares, sobre todo en las ciudades, existen colonias de gatos ocupando solares o espacios abandonados; suelen ser gatos que sus dueños han dejado allí como quien tira un juguete roto; pero todavía hay lugares, sobre todo en pequeños pueblos, en los que los gatos deambulan a su aire sabiendo que tienen un rincón que es su hogar, las sobras de la comida para alimentarse y personas a las que acariciar/marcar y por las que dejarse tocar/acariciar.
Spotted on my weekly transect walk at King's Meadow Reserve in Nottingham (UK) - the only sighting on an uninspiring cool, breezy day (0203).
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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
A roosting female on a grey day near the Wirksworth Stone Centre in the Derbyshire Peak District (UK) (8803)
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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We went to a little cute city on the island Karmøy called Skudenes, there is a nice harbor here and on tip of the southend there is this lighthouse
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.