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Different cultures believe that the color of a butterfly can symbolize everything from creativity to evil. Here we explain the meaning behind butterfly colors.
White Butterfly Meaning. With their radiant, pristine wings, white butterflies are a symbol of purity, innocence, and healing—both physically and spiritually. Common white butterflies include ...
White Butterfly Tattoo Meaning. Butterflies in general are popular inspirations for tattoos, often symbolizing personal journeys of transformation or rebirth in a beautiful graphic form. White ...
Siproeta epaphus, the rusty-tipped page or brown siproeta, [1] is a New World butterfly that lives all year in tropical habitats. It has large wings, averaging 7.0–7.5 cm (2.8–3.0 in), [1] that are black in the inner portion of the top surface and brown throughout the underside. Both surfaces have a bold white transverse stripe continuing ...
Melanargia galathea, the marbled white, is a medium-sized butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. [1] Despite its common name and appearance, this butterfly is one of the "browns", of the subfamily Satyrinae. This species can be found across most of Europe, southern Russia, Asia Minor and Iran.
Pieris rapae is a small- to medium-sized butterfly species of the whites-and-yellows family Pieridae.It is known in Europe as the small white, in North America as the cabbage white or cabbage butterfly, [note 1] on several continents as the small cabbage white, and in New Zealand as the white butterfly. [2]
The dark brown basal part is about 18 mm in breadth and has only in the distal third a dark blue gloss. In the apex of the forewing are placed two small, distinct white spots and one very indistinct light one. At the costal margin of the forewing there is a small white spot.
The scales on butterfly wings are pigmented with melanins that can produce the colours black and brown. The white colour in the butterfly family Pieridae is a derivative of uric acid, an excretory product. [13] [40]: 84 Bright blues, greens, reds, and iridescence are usually created not by pigments but through the microstructure of the scales.