Wood White

Wingspan=40mm
Habitat=Woodland,rides and scrub.
Larval Food plant=Members of the pea family and Bitter-vetch.
Flight Period=May-Jun and Jul-Aug

Species Description

The Wood White Is delicate and fiddly little butterfly. The Wood White is a plain white butterfly except it has a distinctive black tip on the underside of it's front wings. The Wood White is a extremely local and common butterfly with most of it's species in SW and central England. There is also a large population consisting along the Welsh border. The Wood White also comes out on dreary or murky days when most butterfly's stay in undergrowth or vegetable patches. The Wood White always settles with it's wings closed.