Butterfly Conservation Dorset Branch

Orange Tip

Anthocaris cardamines

 
When to see: Early April to Early July.
Peak: May and Early June.
Habitat: Woodland rides, lanes, meadows
Where to see: Cashmoor, Clubmen's Down, Deadmoor Common, Duncliffe Wood, Fifehead Wood, Fontmell Down, Girdler's Coppice, Hod Hill, Jerr'ys Hole, Lydlinch Common, Stubhampton Bottom, Oaker's Wood, Tadnoll, Townsend Quarry, Brackett's Coppice, Cerne Abbas, Kingcombe Pound, Kingcombe Redholm, Kingcombe Stones, Powerstock North, Powerstock Railway, Garston Wood, Ham Common, Moors Valley CP, Stour Valley

Foodplants:

Cuckooflower, Garlic Mustard
Behaviour: Patrol
   

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