#2425 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

orange-tip

🇳🇱 Oranjetipje ·Anthocharis cardamines

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

what is it?

Anthocharis cardamines , the orange tip , is a butterfly in the family Pieridae, which contains 1100 species of butterfly. A. cardamines is mainly found throughout Europe and temperate Asia (Palearctic) The males feature wings with a signature orange pigmentation, which is the origin of A. cardamines ' common name.

base stats

NL sightings 595iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 43,442iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

Spotted 595 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #41 most seen of the butterflies & moths in NL.
43,442 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).