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Butterflies - The Orange Tip

First seen on Friday 7th April 2017 at Croome

The orange-tip is another very aptly named butterfly, as it has orange tips on its wings. Having said that, the female does not, and so she will superficially look similar to all the other white butterflies. However, they both have a beautiful green mottled under-wing, so when feeding with their wings closed they are easy to identify.

These butterflies do not hibernate, but emerge from their chrysalis in early spring (this one was found in April). The males always emerge about a week before the females, so those are the ones that are always spotted as a typical spring butterfly.


 

This female on the leaf below was in the wood to the south of the estate. Although she has no orange tip on her wings, you can still see the green mottled under-wing pattern.