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Common Brimstone

Gonepteryx rhamni

Photo by Annelies
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Field Notes

Description:

On the upper side the male is sulphur yellow while the female is white with a greenish tinge, both have an orange spot in the centre of each wing. It is one of the longest living butterflies, living up to thirteen months.

Notes:

There is a popular myth that it is this butterfly which gave us the word 'butterfly', a corruption of butter-coloured fly.

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