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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies and Skippers (Papilionoidea) » Whites, Sulphurs, Yellows (Pieridae) » Whites (Pierinae) » Cabbage Whites, Checkered Whites, Albatrosses (Pierini) » Pieris » Cabbage White - Hodges#4197 (Pieris rapae)
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White butterfly - Pieris rapae
Copyright © 2010 jim urbach

White butterfly - Pieris rapae
Concord, North Carolina, USA
September 28, 2010
Size: 1 inch
Never did get a top wing view but the top corner edges are a blurred black, but otherwise all white The antennae have no tourquoise color so this is not a white peacock
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Contributed by jim urbach on 28 September, 2010 - 5:52pm
Last updated 10 November, 2013 - 6:21pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 22 October, 2010 - 12:44pm login or register to post comments

It's a Cabbage Butterfly
Pieris rapae
… David J. Ferguson, 28 September, 2010 - 9:54pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks David
Thanks David
… jim urbach, 28 September, 2010 - 10:00pm login or register to post comments

maybe
a white. something like this?

but wait for experts.
… Molly Jacobson, 28 September, 2010 - 7:00pm login or register to post comments

 
Hi Molly, you posted a whit
Hi Molly, you posted a white peacock image and mine did not have tourquosie antennae tips as shown on your image
… jim urbach, 28 September, 2010 - 7:12pm login or register to post comments

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