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Euchloe ausonides? - Euchloe ausonides

Euchloe ausonides? - Euchloe ausonides
Sevenmile Creek, 8 kilometers northwest of Helena, Lewis and Clark County, Montana, USA
May 16, 2021
White pierid with marbled greenish underwing, a smaller species than Pieris rapae, found in the sunny early afternoon, 72 F, light breeze, flying about 0.5 m high over level, non-native-dominated grassland burned in the fire the previous September and with plants regrowing to ca 20 cm tall interspersed with bare ground. Dominated by Medicago sativa, Lepidium chalepense (with flower buds), Taraxacum laevigatum (flowering), and Bromus inermis.

Elevation ca 4000 feet. Disturbed, shrubby riparian corridor on stream restoration site within a patchwork of native and non-native grassland.

Netted, cooled for photography, and released.

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