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Female orange tip, Newbridge

Female orange tip, Newbridge

This female orange tip butterfly was just yards away from the male featured in a post yesterday. For me, proximity to one or more males is the easy way of telling the female from one of the whites.

I think that the green tinge shown on the underwing here is because it is being lit by light reflected off the leaves – the darker green pattern normally shows against a white background.