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Small Cabbage White Butterfly

Pieris rapae

Description:

Perhaps a Grass Yellow or Sulfur Yellow?

Habitat:

Backyard garden

Notes:

Also called a Small White butterfly.

1 Species ID Suggestions

bayucca
bayucca 9 years ago
Small White
Pieris rapae Pieris rapae


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4 Comments

Joey99
Joey99 9 years ago

Ha ha, and grass yellows, sulfur yellows and some oranges mixed in there too. (-:

bayucca
bayucca 9 years ago

There are yellow Whites and white Yellows and large Small Whites and small Large Whites ;-)

Joey99
Joey99 9 years ago

Bayucca, thanks for your ID. I completely forgot about the whites. Joe

bayucca
bayucca 9 years ago

Pieridae, Pierinae, Pierini, Pierina, Pieris rapae.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/3259/bgima...

Joey99
Spotted by
Joey99

San Francisco, California, USA

Spotted on Oct 29, 2014
Submitted on Apr 27, 2015

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