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.
SMALL WHITE BUTTERFLIES
These are almost the same as green veined butterlfies while in flight, but with their wings up they remain the same colour. (The green veined are just that with their wings).
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.
The summer of 2025 was a very good season for these white butterflies.
Getting a pic like this one can entail darting around and poking one's lens at it again and again.
BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION SCOTLAND website : https://butterfly-conservation.org/sites/default/files/2020-03/Butterflies%20of%20Scotland%20poster%20for%20print.pdf#:~:text=Two%20sub-species%20are%20recognised%20in%20Scotland%3A%20the%20polydama,the%20wings%20and%20flies%20in%20July%20and%20August.
SCOTTISH WILDLIFE TRUST : https://scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/2017/04/how-to-identify-white-butterflies/
