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NATURE
Butterflies
Orange-tip
Anthocharis cardamines
Wingspan 40mm
Attractive spring butterfly, flying April-June. Male's orange patch on dark-tipped forewing absent in female; hind underwing of both sexes marbled green and white. Larvae feed mainly on cuckoo-flower. Widespread in S Britain and Ireland.



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