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Male Orange Tip butterfly on Garlic Mustard, Baron's Haugh
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North Lanarkshire - Baron's Haugh and Dalzell Woods
Male Orange Tip (Anthocharis cardamines) butterfly on Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata), Baron's Haugh RSPB Reserve, taken by David Palmar
06 May 2023
Orange Tip butterfly, Ardeer
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North Ayrshire - Ardeer
Female Orange Tip (Anthocharis cardamines) butterfly underside, Ardeer, Ayrshire
04 May 2024
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
Female Orange Tip butterfly, Kelvin Walkway, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvin Walkway, Forth and Clyde Canal, Dawsholm and Garscube
Female Orange Tip (Anthocharis cardamines) butterfly, Kelvin Walkway, Glasgow
25 April 2020
Male Orange Tip butterfly, Kelvindale, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvindale
Orange Tip (Anthocharis cardamines) butterfly, Kelvindale, Glasgow. Only the male has any orange colouring, and even he has small grey triangles at the tips of his forewings. The underwing is blotched green and white, similar on both male and female.
28 April 2020
Male Orange Tip butterfly, Kelvindale, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvindale
Orange Tip (Anthocharis cardamines) butterfly, Kelvindale, Glasgow. Only the male has any orange colouring, and even he has small grey triangles at the tips of his forewings. The underwing is blotched green and white, similar on both male and female.
28 April 2020
Male Orange Tip butterfly, Kelvindale, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvindale
Orange Tip (Anthocharis cardamines) butterfly, Kelvindale, Glasgow. Only the male has any orange colouring, and even he has small grey triangles at the tips of his forewings. The underwing is blotched green and white, similar on both male and female.
28 April 2020
Orange-tip Butterfly feeding on white clover, Auchinstarry, Kilsyth
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North Lanarkshire
Orange-tip Butterfly (Anthocharis cardamines) feeding on White Clover (Trifolium repens), Auchinstarry, Kilsyth, taken by Sarah Longrigg. This is a male butterfly- the females of this species lack the orange tips which give it its name.
17 June 2018
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.
