Small Grass-yellow Butterfly
Female laying eggs
Small Cabbage White
Male, topside Wings
| Small Grass-yellow Butterfly Female laying eggs | | Small Cabbage White Male, topside Wings | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | ||||
| Family: | White & Yellow Butterfly (Papilionoidea: Pieridae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Small Cabbage White (Pieris rapae) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍Female, topside Wings🔎 | ||||
| Other name: | Cabbage White | ||||
Thank you Matt Endacott, Karen Weaving & Leon Crang for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere Males have one black spot per forewing, while females have 2. They both have one spot on each hindwing. This is not obvious and it's easy to confuse the male's forewing spot and hindwing spot as 2 spots on one wing; looking like a female. Larvae are green, with a pale yellow/green line along it's back. Yellow spotting around it's spiricles and 4 tiny ocelli (eyes) per side. | |||||
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