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14-05-2006, 10:09 PM
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| | | Butterfly ID needed
Can somebody please say whether this is a Large White or a Green-veined White? http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/ga...tterflyweb.jpg
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14-05-2006, 10:25 PM
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Originally Posted by wildone | Definitely Green Veined.  The large White has far less prominent vein markings. |
14-05-2006, 10:28 PM
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| | | Re: Butterfly ID needed
Thanks Graham, it is what I thought but I am no expert.
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27-08-2006, 05:33 PM
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| | | Re: Butterfly ID needed
Definately the Green-veined White, the nearest relative is the Small White but that lacks the veining although hybrids between the Grenn-veined and Small White not unknown, and these will be intermediate between the two
GV White has many localised and seasonal forms, in Scotland and Ireland specimens are found that are a rich yellow rather than white. Of the "normal" form Spring Specimens tend to have richer marking that summer and autumn specimens.
Always worth getting a good butterfly book ... a good "cheapie" to be found on ebay is Edmund Sanders "Butterfly Book for the pocket", an old (1940s) book but it has useful keys that can help separate similar species and can be picked up for less than £5.
A more modern "Masterpiece" is "South's British Butterflies by T G, Howarth" printed in the 1970s with superb paintings by Benningfield. | | |
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