Orange Tip Butterflies

[BumbleB]

We seem to have lots of white butterflies with orange spot/tip on their wings.

Looked them up and think they are these Orange Tip - Anthocharis cardamines

Has anyone else seen these? are they common?

[Jenegade]

Yup, they're fairly common, I had one last weekend!

[TEB]

We have a few here, they started showing up a couple of years ago.

[sweetiepea]

The orange-tip is wide spread, and where it has a good food source it can be a frequent visitor. It likes lady's smock. Only the males have the orange markings. Seen during spring and early summer I believe.

[BumbleB]

They seem to like it here. We have had several for the last 2 weeks.

[Flummery]

They are quite abundant (sound less, well, common than 'common'!) I believe they also feed on Jack by the Hedge - aka garlic mustard)

[BumbleB]

Thanks F, when we moved in last July we could not believe the amount and different types of butterflies, so we have started to photograph them and look them up :-)

[TonyF]

Was watching one this afternoon on the irises outside the office window, lovely.

[bluemoon]

We have loads of them, it's one of the most um... abundant species in this area. I think I see more of them than Cabbage Whites. We rarely used to see Peacock butterflies but they seem to be becoming more abundant here too.

[fran]

Yes - had some for last few weeks in SE London - and cabbage, and blue and peacocks.
Sunny site!

Fran

[Sue]

I was cautiously hoping I wasn't imagining that I was seeing a few more butterfies this year and have seen this "variety" three times so far this year, don't remember seeing them before.
Sue

[Headfry]

We have had them here on Oxfordshire for the past few weeks, and the lovely little holly blues are about too!