Wanderers13

By Wanderers13

Orange tip butterfly

A good day for butterflies, many flitting by as I weeded. Later with a camera I could see just as many but couldn’t focus quickly enough. The rain held off and time to strim around the vegetable patch, one male feasted on a cuckoo flower as I walked quietly by, petrol strimmer running, it sat there but no camera. I left the strimmer for a camera and managed the main and extra - is this the female? I couldn’t find a good photo.

We know they like a cuckoo flower, the garden has a mass of these.

Info from the internet:
The males are unmistakable; white butterflies with bright orange wingtips. The females are white with black wingtips. Both have mottled green underwings.

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