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On a
warm afternoon in May I found some whites on a grassy path in the
Eifel area. As I figured out, they were all orange
tips
(Anthocaris cardamines), fluttering over the path and the meadow next
to it.
Orange tips look like typical whites: the wing tops are white with a gray tip and a dot on the front wing. The wings are mottled underneath in olive color along the veins. The outer half of the front wing of the males is bright orange. I was watching them for a while when a female sat on the tip of grass leaf. She bent her wings a little downward and lifted her hind part far up in the air. I this position she remained for while. An advertisement addressed to the males: bridegroom wanted! |
