Small White (Pieris rapae)

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Photo by Zlatan Celebic

Published on Project Noah

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Field Notes

Description:

Medium size butterfly of the family Pieridae, about 3 to 4 cm long, with some 4,5 to 5 cm of wingspan. Hairy thorax, and white wings above sporting one black spot and a blackish smear on the tip of forewing. Wings are yellowish-greenish below.

Habitat:

Observed on edges and walking paths of deciduous, predominantly oak, (Bagasse forest) forest on France-Switzerland border, in a valley of lake Geneva, just in between Jura and Alps mountains ranges.