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Large Cabbage White (male, hiding in Catmint/Catnip/Catswort)

Pieris brassicae

Photo by jazz.mann
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Field Notes

Description:

For both males and females, the wings are white with black tips on the forewings. The female also has two black spots on each forewing while the male has one. The underside of each wing is a pale greenish and serves as excellent camouflage when at rest. The black markings are generally darker in the summer brood. The large white butterfly's wingspan reaches 5 to 6.5 cm on average.

Habitat:

Prairie adjacent to wetland/lake and schrubland/forest at Rock Run Rookery.

Reference Links:

Pieris brassicae - Wikipedia

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Comments (9)
jazz.mann
I found one spotting I made myself in that area (and I have a bunch of nice waterfall and landscape photos from that area, but obviously not suitable for Noah). https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/1551663068
Rithmini Weerakkody
That's lucky of you... It doesn't happen to me... Anyway, I'm back from a 5 day trip to Bandarawela and I'm going to upload my spottings from there now. Check them out if you want :)
jazz.mann
yes, and my eyes are not very good, so often there are things I find in my photos that I did not see when shot, especially after I crop and enlarge. I shot these turtles without realizing it also: https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/542101781
Rithmini Weerakkody
Wow! then you were pretty lucky to have captured it mistakenly... Were you capturing the plant?
jazz.mann
yeah, and I don't even think I saw the butterfly until after when I looked at the photo. HAHA.
jazz.mann
thanks! here is a better one of the same butterfly by Brian38: https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/1413827807. If it wasn't for his spotting a few days ago, I never would have been able to ID the one I shot. LOL.

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PublishedJuly 11, 2021

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