Green-striped white
The green-striped white is a small white butterfly that flies in warm, dry places. It comes out early, already in late winter. Its caterpillars grow up on wild plants of the mustard family.
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Fun facts
You can see it flying from February to June, when many other butterflies are still waiting for summer.
There are at least six slightly different kinds of it, living in different places.
One kind lives only on Fuerteventura, an island in the Canary Islands.
Besides wild scrubland, it also likes old farm terraces and fields.
Most asked questions about Green-striped white
?How big is the green-striped white?
Its open wings measure about 36 to 44 millimetres from tip to tip.
?Where does the green-striped white live?
In North Africa, Arabia, Spain and Portugal, in warm and dry places.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Euchloe belemia
- Named by
- Esper, 1800
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- Africa, Asia, Europe
Where the facts come from
- Euchloe belemia (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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