Eastern Bath white
The eastern Bath white is a white butterfly with black patches near its wing tips. Underneath, its back wings are covered in greenish grey spots. It is a traveller that flies far north in summer.
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Fun facts
It looks almost exactly like the Bath white. Scientists need a microscope or a DNA test to tell them apart.
Its caterpillar is grey green with black dots and wide yellow stripes.
It spends the winter as a chrysalis.
It can live high in the mountains, up to 2300 metres.
Most asked questions about Eastern Bath white
?Where does the eastern Bath white live?
From southern and central Europe across Asia. In summer it may wander as far north as the Baltic states.
?When does the eastern Bath white fly?
From March to October, with two to four families a year.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pontia edusa
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1777
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Pontia edusa (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 Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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