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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies (excluding skippers) (Papilionoidea) » Whites, Sulphurs, Yellows (Pieridae) » Whites (Pierinae) » Pieris » West Virginia White (Pieris virginiensis)
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West Virginia White - Pieris virginiensis
Copyright © 2008 Donna K Race

West Virginia White - Pieris virginiensis
Doddridge County, West Virginia, USA
April 23, 2008
Please confirm if possible...after all, I am in WV. :)
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Contributed by Donna K Race on 30 April, 2008 - 1:59pm
Last updated 21 November, 2008 - 2:17am

Moved
Moved from Butterflies.
… David J. Ferguson, 21 November, 2008 - 2:17am login or register to post comments

Looks right to me!
I'm not sure why no one has responded. That looks like possibly some kind of toothwort it's sitting on, which is the foodplant for WV whites--so this may be a female laying eggs.
… Charley Eiseman, 22 May, 2008 - 3:23pm login or register to post comments

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