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PIERIDAE
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  • Small White
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Green-veined white butterfly
Peris napi
Green Veined White
7.5.2005
Mash Barn Lane
Green veined white
Pieris napi
Green Veined White
20.5.2005
Garden ( Water Forget- me -not plant)
Brimstone Gonepteryx rhamni
Brimstone butterfly
20.4.2005
Mash Barn Lane
Large White butterfly
Name: Pieris rapae
Common: Small White (female)
recorded : 8.9.2000
Site: garden

Size:  
Notes:
Foodplants:
Pieris brassica - Large White butterfly Pieris brassicae
Large White pair
7.5.2005
Mash Barn Lane
Large White butterlfy detail Pieris brassicae
Large White
detail
Large White butterfly Pieris brassicae
Large White - female
recorded : 2.8.2004
Garden
larva large white
Large White Larva
Clouded Yellow butterfly
Scientific: Colias croceus
Common: Clouded Yellow
recorded: 23.8.2000
Site : Widewater Lagoon embankment

Notes: Widewater Lagoon
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Larval Foodplants of White Butterflies
Large White
Crucifers -cabbage, kolrabi etc.
Small White
Crucifers, mignonette, Trapaeolum
Green veined White
Wild Crucifers, rarely on crops
Clouded Yellow
Papilionaceous plants (Legumes)

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