Becker's white
Becker's white is a white butterfly with small black marks on its wings. It lives in western North America, from Mexico up to Canada. Females have more dark markings than males.
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Fun facts
Its caterpillars eat plants mostly from the mustard family, such as black mustard and tansy mustard.
It is also called the sagebrush white and the Great Basin white.
It looks a lot like some other white butterflies with checked patterns, so it can be tricky to tell them apart.
Most asked questions about Becker's white
?How big is Becker's white?
Its open wings are about 3.3 to 4.8 cm across.
?Where does Becker's white live?
In western North America, from Baja California in Mexico to British Columbia in Canada.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pontia beckerii
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Great Basin white, Sagebrush white
Where the facts come from
- Pontia beckerii (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Terry Spivey, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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