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Chrysalis of a male Orange Tip (Anthocharis cardamines) shortly before hatching

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Orange Tip (Anthocharis cardamines)Orange TipAnthocharis cardamines (Linnaeus, 1758)anthocharis cardamineaOrange Tip

Chrysalis of a male Orange Tip (Anthocharis cardamines) shortly before hatching

[Breeding image; Male]

In spring 2018, I took a few Cuckoo Flowers (Cardamine pratensis) with Orange Tip (Anthocharis cardamines) eggs attached to them home and continued breeding them. In the spring of the following year, the butterflies hatched from the pupae that had overwintered outdoors: first the males.

Photograph: Ingo DanielsIngo Daniels; Bonn, /PicturesNA/Flags/de.pngGermanyBonn, /PicturesNA/Flags/de.pngGermany/PicturesNA/Flags/de.pngGermany (20. March 2019, 05:01 PM)

Breeding: Ingo DanielsIngo Daniels