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Pieris rapae
Medium size butterfly with a wingspan of roughly 32–47 mm The upperside is creamy white with black tips to the forewings. Females also have two black spots in the centre of the forewings. Its underwings are yellowish with black speckles. Its caterpillars can be a pest on cultivated cabbages and similar.
Spotted closed to a brook in a pine-tree and Holm oak forest
Camera Model: NIKON D300. Exposure Time: 1/125 sec.; f/25; ISO Speed Rating: 400. Focal Length: 300.0 mm.
Spotted on Apr 25, 2013
Submitted on May 27, 2013
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Identified as Pieris rapae, Small white