Orange-tip Butterfly - Anthocharis cardamines

The male orange-tip butterfly is immediately recognisable by the distinctive orange sectors on the wing tips.

Orange-tip Butterfly

Females lack the orange colouring but the greenish patterning on the underside of the hindwings of both males and females is an aid to identification.

Orange-tip butterfly - wings closed

From early April until mid June these meadow butterflies seek out cuckooflowers - Cardamine pratensis - (milkmaids or lady's smock are alternative common names) and other members of the Brassicaceae or cabage family.

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Orange-tip Butterfly - Anthocharis cardamines

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