Orang tip butterfly female (orange on males) alighted on flowers resting before flying away. Anthocharis cardamines. Green white marbled hind wings.

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This orange tip is a female so has not got the orange tip but it had recently emerged and settled so was in prime condition. A couple of gentlemen were holding it on a leaf taking photos of it on there phones. They then put it down on a plant where it stayed a short while then flew to the flowers in my image. The men told me it was a female orange tip.

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Size: 4025px × 2683px
Location: Langford Lakes Nature Reserve, Wiltshire Wildlife Trust, Salisbury, United Kingdom
Photo credit: © Stephen Iles / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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