Butterflies: Orange Tip

The uninspiredly named orange tip (Anthocharis cardamines), oranjetipje in Dutch, can be seen from March to June in The Netherlands, but individuals only live for about three weeks as an adult, quite a contrast to the brimstone's whole year I posted about yesterday.

They are usually found near wet grasslands, but strangely, the males hang out around the edges of forests whereas the females prefer meadows. They do meet, of course, to make mating more practical.

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO200, f8, 1/320s}

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 200mm, ISO200, f5.6, 1/400s}

^{Olympus XZ-1, 112mm, ISO100, f8, 1/125s}

Wings-closed, they show an interesting camouflage pattern:

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 135mm, ISO100, f5.6, 1/500s}

The females have to make do without the orange wing tips:

^{Olympus XZ-1, 112mm, ISO100, f8, 1/640s}

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