butterfly

Looks like a Pieris rapae crucivora or a Pieris rapae yunnana (hard to tell). Wonderful photos =) We (some graduate students and I) created a citizen science project to look at the genetics of this butterfly (and its subspecies) from across the world - pierisproject.org. If you would be interested in helping (collect a few cabbage whites), we would love to have a few individuals from Taiwan (we don't have any from there yet). The butterfly has invaded into most regions of the planet and we are trying to reconstruct how it spread across the world (this species is now probably the most abundant and widespread butterfly on the planet!).