Pine white
The pine white is a white butterfly with black veins and black bars on its wings. It lives in pine forests in western North America. Unlike most butterflies, its caterpillars munch on pine needles.
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Fun facts
The mother lays her eggs on living pine needles.
Its caterpillars also eat the needles of fir, spruce and hemlock trees.
There is only one generation of pine whites each year.
It has a close cousin that looks very much like it, but the two only meet in New Mexico.
Most asked questions about Pine white
?What does the pine white eat?
The butterflies drink nectar from flowers. The caterpillars eat pine needles and the needles of other conifers.
?How big is the pine white?
Its wings measure 42 to 50 millimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Neophasia menapia
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Neophasia menapia (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 Megan McCarty. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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