Friday 11 May 2018

Orange-tip butterfly

There seem to be orange-tip butterflies everywhere I go just now.  They dance around, threatening to land on a flower but rarely doing so and so are hard to photograph.  I eventually saw a male pause briefly on bird's-foot trefoil (or eggs and bacon as we used to call it).

The female is less immediately identifiable from above but has similar patterning to the male, except no orange tips.

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