{"id":351,"date":"2024-10-08T14:01:22","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T13:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbeasties\/?p=351"},"modified":"2024-10-08T14:01:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T13:01:22","slug":"orange-tip-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbeasties\/2024\/10\/08\/orange-tip-butterfly\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange tip butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Orange tip butterflies are named after the appearance of the male butterflies, because of there breathtaking orange wingtips.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile has-base-color has-contrast-background-color has-text-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-blush-bordeaux-gradient-background has-background\"><strong>Their coat colour<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-blush-bordeaux-gradient-background has-background\">The males have a white body with bright orange wingtips and they have a small black dot on there wings, the females have the black dot on there wingtip too but the females have a white body with black wingtips. When they&#8217;re a caterpillar their body\u2019s are green and blue with a white line down there body.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1023\" height=\"734\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbeasties\/uploads\/sites\/40319\/2024\/10\/08133359\/IMG_0847.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-356 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbeasties\/uploads\/sites\/40319\/2024\/10\/08133359\/IMG_0847.jpeg 1023w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbeasties\/uploads\/sites\/40319\/2024\/10\/08133359\/IMG_0847-300x215.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbeasties\/uploads\/sites\/40319\/2024\/10\/08133359\/IMG_0847-768x551.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 1023px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile has-base-color has-contrast-background-color has-text-color has-background\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"808\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbeasties\/uploads\/sites\/40319\/2024\/10\/08133606\/IMG_0849.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-359 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbeasties\/uploads\/sites\/40319\/2024\/10\/08133606\/IMG_0849.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbeasties\/uploads\/sites\/40319\/2024\/10\/08133606\/IMG_0849-300x237.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbeasties\/uploads\/sites\/40319\/2024\/10\/08133606\/IMG_0849-768x606.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-blush-bordeaux-gradient-background has-background\"><strong>Food &#8211; what they eat<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-blush-bordeaux-gradient-background has-background\">Butterflies prefer to eat plants, nettles and nectar. But sadly are ate by birds, spiders, frogs, toads, hedgehogs, bats, cats, dogs and surprisingly wasps<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-blush-bordeaux-gradient-background has-background\">(Who knew wasps could eat butterflies?)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile has-base-color has-contrast-background-color has-text-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-blush-bordeaux-gradient-background has-background\"><strong>Where they live<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-blush-bordeaux-gradient-background has-background\">Orange tip butterflies are found in damper habitats like meadows, woodland glades, hedge rows and banks of streams, sometimes they visit people gardens but not that much and you mostly see them in Scotland in the spring. We also she these magnificent creatures in our playground at Banton primary school<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"733\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbeasties\/uploads\/sites\/40319\/2024\/10\/08134752\/IMG_0848.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-374 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbeasties\/uploads\/sites\/40319\/2024\/10\/08134752\/IMG_0848.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbeasties\/uploads\/sites\/40319\/2024\/10\/08134752\/IMG_0848-300x215.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbeasties\/uploads\/sites\/40319\/2024\/10\/08134752\/IMG_0848-768x550.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-blush-bordeaux-gradient-background has-background\">Interesting and fun facts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"has-blush-bordeaux-gradient-background has-background wp-block-list\">\n<li>Orange tip butterflies lay there eggs on caterpillar food plants so when the eggs hatch they have something to eat, but they but them on separate ones because caterpillars eat other caterpillars.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Butterflies have special sensors on there feet to taste their food&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orange tip butterflies are named after the appearance of the male butterflies, because of there breathtaking orange wingtips.&nbsp; Their coat colour The males have a white body with bright orange wingtips and they have a small black dot on there wings, the females have the black dot on there wingtip too but the females have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60515,"featured_media":394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insect","category-invertebrate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbeasties\/uploads\/sites\/40319\/2024\/10\/08140041\/IMG_0853.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbeasties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbeasties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbeasties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbeasties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60515"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbeasties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbeasties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbeasties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbeasties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbeasties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbeasties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbeasties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}