Eastern dappled white
The eastern dappled white is a white butterfly with black wing tips and a black spot on each front wing. Underneath, black and yellow scales mix into a greenish white pattern. It lives on rocky slopes and meadows in southern Europe and Asia.
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Fun facts
Its wings measure 36 to 48 millimetres from tip to tip.
It looks almost exactly like its cousin, the western dappled white, and is very hard to tell apart.
Its caterpillar can be yellowish, greenish or bluish, with side stripes and lots of tiny black dots.
In most places it has two families a year, but in mountains and very dry places only one.
It flies from early March to early July.
Most asked questions about Eastern dappled white
?What does the eastern dappled white eat?
Its caterpillars eat the flowers and young pods of mustard family plants.
?How big is the eastern dappled white?
Its wings are about 36 to 48 millimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Euchloe ausonia
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Euchloe ausonia (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 Zeynel Cebeci. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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