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Female orange tip butterfly at rest

20 May 2016 by David

Female orange tip butterfly at rest

Orange tip butterfly at rest, pictured in May 2014. Orange tips are flighty butterflies, frequently visible only at a distance.

This one does not have an orange tip to the forewings – that is found only in the males.

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