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Pieris, the whites or garden whites, is a widespread, now almost cosmopolitan, genus of butterflies of the family Pieridae.The highest species diversity is in the Palearctic, with a higher diversity in Europe and eastern North America than the similar and closely related Pontia.
The eggs are laid singly on a wide range of food plants including hedge mustard (Sisymbrium officinale), garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata), cuckooflower (Cardamine pratense), water-cress (Rorippa nastutium-aquaticum), charlock (Sinapis arvensis), large bitter-cress (Cardamine amara), wild cabbage (Brassica oleracea), and wild radish (Raphanus raphanistrum), and so it is rarely a pest in ...
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 ]
Common Jezebel (Delias eucharis) Eastern greenish black-tip (Euchloe penia)The Pieridae are a large family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing about 1,100 species, mostly from tropical Africa and tropical Asia with some varieties in the more northern regions of North America and Eurasia. [1]
Considering that the butterfly was last collected in 1977, and not found since despite a 15-year survey during the 1980s and 1990s, it might be either extremely rare or possibly extinct. [ 5 ] The disappearance of this species coincides with the introduction, in the 1950s, of the small white butterfly ( Pieris rapae ).
Pieris angelika – Arctic white; Pieris brassicae – large white; Pieris marginalis – margined white Pieris marginalis reicheli – Reichel's margined white; Pieris oleracea – mustard white Pieris oleracea frigida – Newfoundland white; Pieris rapae – small white; Pieris virginiensis – West Virginia white butterfly
Pieris oleracea, or more commonly known as the mustard white, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae native to a large part of Canada and the northeastern United States. The nearly all-white butterfly is often found in wooded areas or open plains. There are two seasonal forms, which make it distinct from other similar species.
Checkered white, Pontia protodice, egg on garlic mustard Whites and sulphurs are small to medium-sized butterflies.Their wingspans range from 0.8 to 4.0 inches (2-10.2 cm).