Butterflies, I've never seen this one before

We used to see these orange tip whites in the garden quite regularly many years ago but haven’t seen one for ages. Lucky you!

Like this? An Orange tip.

yes ,that's the one..

PamelaJ1

Like this? An Orange tip.

How lovely! I've never seen one of these beauties

I had one on the valerian on my patio in Cornwall this week.

I saw one last year - I had to google to find out what it was!

We see quite a lot of orange tip butterflies in our garden. The most prevalent ones at present are large whites.

They are fairly commonplace here though I’ve yet to see one this year - or many other species. Probably waiting for the buddleia to flower. I did get a small tortoiseshell at the weekend. Not a rarity but all are welcome!

Butterflies would be my DH’s specialist subject if he ever went on mastermind.
Orange tips are fairly common round here.

This one turned up in April - a northern speckled wood. Also not rare but not generally seen in gardens.

We get several kinds of butterflies, but quite a rarity is a plain lemon yellow one. I even had one on my kitchen window sill for several days amongst the pots of herbs.

My absolute favourites are the bright blue iridescent ones up in Queensland and the Northern Territory. Ulysses butterflies. I have seen quite a few of them, they tend to flock together.

I think it depends where you live as to what butterflies will see.

Never heard of the Orange Tip Butterfly but it looks like a lovely creature to behold

Not a butterfly but a beautiful moth I believe it’s called a white ermine and kept me company on the allotment

So lovely to see a beautiful moth. I hope to come across this one.

We have had 3 Painted Lady butterflies on our valerian recently.

I have seen a lot of six spot burnets (also a moth) this week but I've also for the first ever, heard a cuckoo!

We had a humming bird hawk moth in our garden once. (North West England)