Butter fly ID please.
Apr 12, 2019 05:25:35 #
Pablo8
Loc: Nottingham UK.
Hello ...Could you identify the butterfly on this Daffodil. Cannot find my Collins reference book , and not familiar with the species, rather tiny.
Apr 12, 2019 06:20:13 #
Apr 12, 2019 07:11:31 #
Pablo8
Loc: Nottingham UK.
Well the thread has been running for 90 plus minutes. Over 100 views, just one other poster who could not ID the species. I wonder how many of the 100 viewers would be interested to know the answer?
Apr 12, 2019 07:14:58 #
Pablo8 wrote:
Well the thread has been running for 90 plus minutes. Over 100 views, just one other poster who could not ID the species. I wonder how many of the 100 viewers would be interested to know the answer?
I would..........cool looking little guy.
Apr 12, 2019 07:52:59 #
Apr 12, 2019 08:29:43 #
Apr 12, 2019 08:35:30 #
There are a couple of photos on this UK site:
http://www.sussex-butterflies.org.uk/sightings/sighting_live_2017.php?sid=1773
You can sort out the name from there.
http://www.sussex-butterflies.org.uk/sightings/sighting_live_2017.php?sid=1773
You can sort out the name from there.
Apr 12, 2019 09:13:10 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
There are a couple of photos on this UK site:
http://www.sussex-butterflies.org.uk/sightings/sighting_live_2017.php?sid=1773
You can sort out the name from there.
http://www.sussex-butterflies.org.uk/sightings/sighting_live_2017.php?sid=1773
You can sort out the name from there.
With Linda's help, I believe it to be an orange tipped butterfly.
Apr 12, 2019 09:22:41 #
Pablo8
Loc: Nottingham UK.
Linda From Maine wrote:
There are a couple of photos on this UK site:
http://www.sussex-butterflies.org.uk/sightings/sighting_live_2017.php?sid=1773
You can sort out the name from there.
http://www.sussex-butterflies.org.uk/sightings/sighting_live_2017.php?sid=1773
You can sort out the name from there.
Thanks Linda...From looking at the link you provided, I recognised two images which seemed to match my example. One picture had the caption of just the Photographer's name. The other had the name "Orange Tip", But that name was more attributed to a different species on a picture close-by, which had orange tips to the wings. So there was no definitive answer there. As suggested earlier, I will try the Gallery Section.
Apr 12, 2019 09:24:13 #
roxiemarty wrote:
With Linda's help, I believe it to be an orange tipped butterfly.
I thought it might be a moth but you are more likely correct.
Apr 12, 2019 09:29:05 #
This is what I found.......there are several in this species, I still think it is one of them.
Apr 12, 2019 09:35:26 #
Orange Tip, Anthocharis cardamines, it seems to have no orange on the wing tips so its a female
Apr 12, 2019 09:48:51 #
Apr 12, 2019 10:16:02 #
I agree with orange -tip,found in temperate Europe and Asia, Japan. Orange tip wings may be folded with-in the outer wings.
Apr 12, 2019 10:22:10 #
roxiemarty wrote:
This site shows same view as the OP's and calls it female orange-tip (underwing view):With Linda's help, I believe it to be an orange tipped butterfly.
https://butterfly-conservation.org/butterflies/orange-tip
(edit - and now I see that the answer was quickly provided in Photo Gallery
Ah well, sometimes it's fun to play detective.)photo from the website cited
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