Florida white
The Florida white is a big white butterfly from warm American forests. The boy is snowy white with just a thin black edge on his front wings. The girl changes her look with the seasons.
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Fun facts
In the dry season the female is all white. In the rainy season she gets black edges and yellow-orange back wings.
Its caterpillars like shade. They eat at night and on cloudy days.
It often flies to the coast of Texas, and a few lost ones have even reached Colorado and Nebraska.
Some islands, like Cuba and Jamaica, have their own slightly different kinds of Florida white.
Most asked questions about Florida white
?Is the Florida white dangerous?
No. It is a butterfly and cannot bite or sting.
?How big is the Florida white?
Its open wings measure about 5 to 8 centimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Glutophrissa drusilla
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- South America, North America
- Also known as
- Tropical white
Where the facts come from
- Appias drusilla (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 Geoff Gallice. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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