Mimosa Yellow

The Mimosa Yellow (Pyrisitia nise) is one of many neotropical Coliadinae species. Whites and Sulphurs are small to medium sized butterflies. Their wingspans range from 1 1/8 - 2 inches (2.9 - 5.1 cm). They are more a butterfly of the forest than the similar looking, and more widespread little yellow.

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Great Southern White

Great Southern White is a large white butterfly common in the extreme southern US. It sometimes strays north and is accidental in North Carolina. This butterfly is common in coastal areas where its lazy, low flight may visit a garden near you.

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California Dogface

Zerene eurydice, the California Dogface butterfly, is sometimes placed in the related genus as Colias eurydice. It is endemic to California, and its state insect insignia. Male saffron-orange above with curved and pointed FW tips and thick black FW margin indented in poodle-head pattern. (Some populations also have black HW margin.) Male may have brilliant plum-red or violet-purple sheen to dog-face. Female pale yellow with pointed wing tips; barely suggesting or lacking dark FW margin. Below, deep yellow or greenish with black FW cell ring, silvery spots in HW cell.

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Mustard White

A circumboreal animal type far reaching opposite Europe and Asia, incorporating the Indian subcontinent, Japan and the Maghreb and North America (Many authors consider the Mustard White of North America to be conspecific with napi) or consider napi to be a superspecies. It is found in meadows, hedgerows and woodland glades but not as often in gardens and parks like its close relatives the Large and Small Whites, for which it is often mistaken. Like other "white" butterflies, the sexes differ.

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Large Marble

Scattered white scales in forewing black bar. Black pattern on tip of upperside of forewing. Dense green marbling on underside of hindwing. Males patrol valleys and hillsides for females. Eggs are laid singly on unopened flower buds; caterpillars eat flowers and fruits. The Large Marble is found throughout most of western Canada as far north as treeline. It is absent from the west coast (extinct on southern Vancouver Island) and from the open prairie regions of southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Its range extends eastward into Ontario as far as Manitoulin Island.

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Orange Sulphur

One of 13 Coliadinae (sulphur subfamily) species found in Ontario, Orange Sulphur is also known as the Alfalfa Butterfly. As with many Sulphurs, eurytheme's wing pattern and coloration is sexually differentiated. Although it is a resident representative of this genera, C. eurytheme may also be migratory. In southern fields of Alfalfa and clovers, Orange and Clouded (C. philodice) Sulphurs can become quite numerous and are considered agricultural pests.

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Cabbage White

In appearance Cabbage White looks like a smaller version of the Large White. The upperside is creamy white with black tips to the forewings. Females also have two black spots in the center of the forewings. Its underwings are yellowish with black speckles. It is sometimes mistaken for a moth due to its plain-looking appearance. An adult's wingspan is roughly 32–47 mm (1.25–2 in). The Small White (Pieris rapae) is a small- to medium-sized butterfly species of the Yellows-and-Whites family Pieridae. It is also commonly known as the Small Cabbage White and in New Zealand simply as white butterfly. The names

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