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Butterflies Page 13
Image Taken on 14 Apr 2024
at 12:22 Image of day on 11 May 2024
Our first Green-veined white Butterfly this year, feeding from one of the
enormous number of Garlic Mustard flowers. This appears to be a male.
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Image Taken on 16 Apr 2024
at 10:55 Image of day on 11 May 2024
A couple of days on we find this Green-veined White feasting on a
little cluster of Forget-me-not flowers. The spots indicate that this is a female.
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Image Taken on 30 Jun 2018
at 13:16 Image of day on 20 Aug 2018
A Green-veined White Butterfly looking for nectar on a mostly 'spent' Blackberry flower.
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Image Taken on 04 May 2020
at 15:08 Image of day on 29 May 2020
This has been an unusually plentiful year for Green Veined White Butterflies
around our patch. This one is feeding from an also plentiful Garlic Mustard flower.
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Image Taken on 25 Apr 2018
at 09:25 Image of day on 07 Jun 2018
A Green-veined White butterfly stops to tank-up on some Lady's Smock (Cuckoo Flower) flowers
that grow all around the edge of the main pond and the main pond island. The
butterfly takes it's name for the patterning under the wing.
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Image Taken on 23 Sep 2022
at 15:04 Image of day on 01 Nov 2022
The weather has been quite cold and rarely sunny, but we did find this
Green-veined White butterfly feeding on the still flowering mint plants.
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Image Taken on 04 Sep 2022
at 16:02 Image of day on 12 Oct 2022
A Green-veined White Butterfly enjoys a mint flower
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Image Taken on 04 Sep 2022
at 16:02 Image of day on 12 Oct 2022
Here is a closer look at just the Green-veined white Butterfly on a mint flower.
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Image Taken on 19 Sep 2019
at 13:12 Image of day on 11 Nov 2019
Green Veined White Butterflies have been seen here regularly this year.
This one is on the seemingly never ending supply of Mint flowers
Now in their second brood, eggs laid now overwinter as Chrysalises.
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Image Taken on 19 Sep 2019
at 13:12 Image of day on 11 Nov 2019
Green Veined White Butterflies have been seen here regularly this year.
This one is on the seemingly never ending supply of Mint flowers
Now in their second brood, eggs laid now overwinter as Chrysalises.
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Image Taken on 24 Aug 2021
at 11:00 Image of day on 06 Oct 2021
A Green-veined White Butterfly enjoying their share of the Loosestrife bounty.
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Image Taken on 04 Sep 2022
at 16:03 Image of day on 12 Oct 2022
The same individual Green-veined White Butterfly goes on to visit this thistle flower, surrounded by
withering flowers and a tangle of seeds ready to be blown to pastures new.
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Image Taken on 08 Aug 2022
at 11:12 Image of day on 20 Sep 2022
The first Green-veined White Butterfly this year.
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Image Taken on 21 Apr 2019
at 16:05 Image of day on 19 May 2019
A different Green-veined White individual flies towards the camera - a direction totally
the decision of the insect. Once they are in flight they can do whatever they like!
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Image Taken on 21 Apr 2019
at 13:01 Image of day on 19 May 2019
This is a Green Veined White Butterfly 'visiting' which is somethimes
seen feeding on Lady's Smock (Cuckoo Flower) flowers.
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Image Taken on 14 Jul 2021
at 13:44 Image of day on 18 Aug 2021
This is the second emergence this year of Green-veined White Butterflies.
This species overwinters as Chrysalises (or chrysalides) to emerge in Spring,
twice laying eggs for 2 summertime generations, before dying in the Autumn
and leaving the Chrysalises to emerge to continue the species next year.
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Image Taken on 27 Apr 2015
at 10:37 Image of day on 17 Jun 2015
We don't see many Green-veined White Butterflies. This one was by
the edge of our concrete access track on the inevitable nettles.
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Image Taken on 05 May 2020
at 13:33 Image of day on 29 May 2020
Next afternoon this Green Veined White butterfly perches on a Garlic Mustard leaf.
Not trying to feed, the Proboscis is neatly rolled.
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Image Taken on 30 Jul 2020
at 13:03 Image of day on 06 Sep 2020
A pair of Holly Blue butterflies mating on a Hawthorn leaf.
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Image Taken on 04 Aug 2021
at 15:18 Image of day on 13 Sep 2021
This Holly Blue Butterfly makes it's second generation for the year, before laying
eggs and making Pupae which hibernate through the winter to emerge as next
years first generation.
Even quite similar Butterfly species use a wide range of 1, 2 or 3 generations per
year, going through the winter as any of Egg, Caterpillar, Chrysalis or Adults.
The diversity is amazing - your couldn't plan it!
If you are interested in such stuff we recommend to you a 1991 book
'The Butterflies of Britain & Ireland' by Jeremy Thomas & Richard Lewington
ISBN 0-86318-591-6. It includes multi-sided illustrations of both sexes
different generations and variations, and timelines for each stage of development.
Looking this up on Amazon, EBay & Google (in 2021) shows used original hardback
copies for about UKP 7 inc. delivery, and that there is a revised edition
(2019) for about UKP 20 which we haven't seen so can't comment.
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