WHITE BUTTERFLIES
Also see : BUTTERFLIES & MOTHS
There are 4 varieties. A butterfly with streaked greeny-grey wing veins radiating out from the shoulder is a green-veined white. A butterfly with a blotchy greeny-grey camouflage pattern all over the wing is an orange tip. A butterfly with a plain creamy white coloured wing with no obvious markings is either a small white or a large white.
This is a large white seen above Renton in May. Most probably a male. The female has two black spots and a dash on each forewing.
A sunny day late in July and quite a few of these white butterflies are about. Some, such as this one, are looking tatty. Butterflies are fragile. They live for just 2 to 6 weeks.
A green veined butterfly alights on white scabiosa in a Renton garden in early May.
