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Pieris rapae
White butterfly with dark upper wing tips and two dark spots on the top side of its wings. Found resting on a squash leaf on a cold day.
Community garden at Penn State University.
According to wikipedia "these butterflies are widespread across Europe, North Africa, Asia, and Great Britain and (have) also been accidentally introduced to North America, Australia and New Zealand where they have become pests on cultivated cabbages and other mustard family crops." I had no idea these lovely critters were not native here.
Spotted on Sep 29, 2011
Submitted on Oct 5, 2011
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