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Light colored mating butterflies - Pieris rapae - male - female
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Light colored mating butterflies - Pieris rapae - Male Female
Dorchester, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada
July 2, 2017
Can you also please let me know which is the male/female.
Contributed by allysum2000 on 24 February, 2021 - 3:47pm
Last updated 3 March, 2021 - 5:38am

Moved
These were introduced into western Canada in the 1800s and have spread throughout most of North America. Hostplant is mustard(s). A very successful beautiful species.

Moved from ID Request.
… Roy Cohutta Brown, 3 March, 2021 - 5:38am

Pieris rapae, male is the upp
Pieris rapae, male is the upper one.
… Hexapoda, 24 February, 2021 - 5:01pm

 
Thank you!
Thank you!
… allysum2000, 24 February, 2021 - 9:13pm

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