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Orange Tip eggs on Lady's Smock or Cuckoo Flower, RSPB Loch Lomond
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Loch Lomond - RSPB Loch Lomond
An amazing collection of four Orange Tip (Anthocharis cardamines) butterfly eggs on the main caterpillar food plant Lady's Smock or Cuckoo Flower (Cardamine pratensis) at RSPB Loch Lomond, taken by David Palmar
28 May 2022
Cuckoo flower or Lady's Smock with Orange Tip egg, Uplawmoor
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East Renfrewshire
Cuckoo flower or Lady's Smock (Cardamine pratensis). This is an important food plant for the caterpillars of the orange-tip and the green-veined white butterfly. Ordinarily found in damp habitat. The plant is said to flower at the same time as the Cuckoo bird returns to the UK, hence its name. This photo was taken at Uplawmoor, East Renfrewshire.
30 April 2017
Cuckoo flower or Lady's Smock with Orange Tip egg, Uplawmoor
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East Renfrewshire
Cuckoo flower or Lady's Smock (Cardamine pratensis). This is an important food plant for the caterpillars of the orange-tip and the green-veined white butterfly. Ordinarily found in damp habitat. The plant is said to flower at the same time as the Cuckoo bird returns to the UK, hence its name. This photo was taken at Uplawmoor, East Renfrewshire.
30 April 2017
Orpine, Mugdock Bank, near Milngavie
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CEP - Stirlingshire and East Dunbartonshire
Orpine (Hylotelephium telephium), known by many other names such as livelong, frog's stomach and witch's moneybags, is a tall growing herbaceous plant, and was traditionally used to teat wounds. It hybridises easily and can be found throughout much of Europe. Seen on Mugdock Bank in Mugdock Country Park, near Milngavie. Scanned from a slide taken by CE Palmar in 1975 and kept as a biological record.
18 August 1975
Male Orange tip butterfly, Bo'ness
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Falkirk - Bo'ness and Kinneil
Male Orange tip (Anthocharis cardamines) butterfly on Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata), at former Bridgeness Shipbreakers site, Bo'ness. Females are white with black tips and lack the orange of the males. The butterflies prefer damp habitats but are often found in gardens.
03 May 2017
Male Orange tip butterfly, Bo'ness
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Falkirk - Bo'ness and Kinneil
Male Orange tip (Anthocharis cardamines) butterfly on Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata), at former Bridgeness Shipbreakers site, Bo'ness. Females are white with black tips and lack the orange of the males. The butterflies prefer damp habitats but are often found in gardens.
03 May 2017
Female Orange tip butterfly, Bo'ness
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Falkirk - Bo'ness and Kinneil
Female Orange tip (Anthocharis cardamines) butterfly on Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata), former Bridgeness Shipbreakers site, Bo'ness. Females are white with black tips and lack the orange of the males. The butterflies prefer damp habitats but are often found in gardens. They use this plant as a place to lay their eggs.
03 May 2017
Female Orange tip butterfly, Bo'ness
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Falkirk - Bo'ness and Kinneil
Female Orange tip (Anthocharis cardamines) butterfly on Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata), former Bridgeness Shipbreakers site, Bo'ness. Females are white with black tips and lack the orange of the males. The butterflies prefer damp habitats but are often found in gardens. They use this plant as a place to lay their eggs. Notice the curled up proboscis, which is extends into the plant to obtain nectar.
03 May 2017
Female Orange tip butterfly, Bo'ness
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Falkirk - Bo'ness and Kinneil
Female Orange tip (Anthocharis cardamines) butterfly nectaring on Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata), former Bridgeness Shipbreakers site, Bo'ness. Females are white with black tips and lack the orange of the males. The butterflies prefer damp habitats but are often found in gardens. They use this plant as a place to lay their eggs.
03 May 2017
Female Orange tip butterfly, Bo'ness
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Falkirk - Bo'ness and Kinneil
Female Orange tip (Anthocharis cardamines) butterfly on Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata), former Bridgeness Shipbreakers site, Bo'ness. Females are white with black tips and lack the orange of the males. The butterflies prefer damp habitats but are often found in gardens. They use this plant as a place to lay their eggs.
