A male falcate orangetip butterfly?! What an uninspiring name for such a beauty. Jonathan Snyder sent these photos of the little butterfly that he took at Horn Point and Back Bay National Wildlife … ...

There are no prizes for guessing how the Orange Tip butterfly got its name. Butterflies have four wings and it is obvious that it is the brightly-coloured tips of both the upper and lower surfaces ...

There are nearly 20,000 butterfly species divided into six families. They are spread across every continent except for ...

One of my favourite early season species is the orange tip. I’ve been travelling on my boat recently and the canal banks are a sort of linear nature reserve, alive with spring flowers and ...

Orange-tip butterfly taken by Paul Ardron. Paul Ardron sent me this photograph of a pristine condition orange-tip butterfly just emerged from winter hibernation as a chrysalis and in absolutely ...

ADULT butterflies are like our cars - they do not grow but they do need feeding with fuel. This is why they visit plants in order to visit a "filling station" which has "pumps" full of nectar. The ...