Western dappled white
The western dappled white is a pearly white butterfly with black wing tips. Underneath, its back wings are green with white spots, like sunlight dappling through leaves. It loves warm, open places in southwestern Europe and North Africa.
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Fun facts
The green colour underneath its wings is made by black and yellow scales mixed together.
The female is bigger and greener than the male.
It is a wanderer that can live almost anywhere, from the seaside up to mountains more than 2400 metres high.
Some of its chrysalises wait a whole year, or even several years, before a butterfly comes out.
It looks almost exactly like its cousin, the eastern dappled white.
Most asked questions about Western dappled white
?What does the western dappled white eat?
Its caterpillar eats mustard plants. The eggs are laid on the flower buds.
?Where does the western dappled white live?
In southwestern Europe and northwestern Africa, in warm, open places and fields.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Euchloe crameri
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa
Where the facts come from
- Euchloe crameri (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 Adrian198cm. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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