orange-tip

Around it, orange-tip butterflies sought cuckoo flowers and willow warblers sang in hedges.

Country Diary: Wenlock Edge 2011

On our way to the British Camp, Chris Thomond and I walked through bluebells and milkmaid or lady's smock (don't believe anyone who tells you that British wild flowers have gone), brushed aside orange-tip and green-veined white butterflies, watched a buzzard and a sparrowhawk and avoided an adder.

Britain's best views: The British Camp, Malvern Hills 2010

An orange-tip butterfly goes by, riding the thermal that rises off the edge of a terrace to one side.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

An orange-tip butterfly goes by, riding the thermal that rises off the edge of a terrace to one side.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

It was the orange-tip, and the dormouse rejoiced, for the orange-tip meant spring.

"Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Douglas English

Their white sails bear fabulous devices in golden colour of moons and crescents and dolphins; some are marked like the "orange-tip" butterfly.

Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

Mr.T. W. W.od has pointed out that the little orange-tip butterfly often rests in the evening on the green and white flower heads of an umbelliferous plant, and that when observed in this position the beautiful green and white mottling of the under surface completely assimilates with the flower heads and renders the creature very difficult to be seen.

Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

In the more gaily coloured Pieridae, of which our orange-tip butterfly may be taken as a type, we see in the female the plain ancestral colours of the group, while the male has acquired the brilliant orange tip to its wings, probably as a recognition mark.

Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

Lady Alberta, the orange-tip, and the other child the burnet moth. '

The Two Sides of the Shield Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

The brimstone or orange-tip would be good to observe in this respect, but it is hopelessly difficult.

More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845