Margined White

Pieris marginalis

The Margined White is a beautiful butterfly with white wings and black edges. It loves to flutter around gardens and fields, bringing joy to everyone who sees it.

Lebensraum: Grasslands

Aussehen

The Margined White is a medium-sized butterfly with white wings, often showing faint dark scaling along the margins, especially on females. Its undersides can have a yellowish tint or dark dust-like scaling along veins, differentiating it from similar white butterflies.

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Margined White

Kategorie

Insekten

Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Snaps

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Interessante Fakten

It's like a tiny flying map-maker, finding its way using the sun!

Margined Whites are great at 'playing dead' if they feel threatened!

Some Margined Whites can produce two generations of butterflies in a single year!

This butterfly starts as a hungry caterpillar that loves to munch on mustard plants!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Margined White can blend into dappled sunlight because of its white wings and subtle markings that help it hide from predators.

Margined White has special sensors on its feet that help it 'taste' leaves to find the perfect spot to lay eggs.

Margined White can sip sweet nectar from flowers using its long proboscis, helping it fuel its flights and pollinate plants.

Maße und Details

Flügelspannweite: 35-50 mm
Größe: 15-25 mm
Lebenserwartung: 10-20 Tage
Fluggeschwindigkeit: 15 km/h
Anzahl der Beine: 6

Ernährung und Fütterung

Adult Margined Whites drink flower nectar; caterpillars munch on plants from the mustard family.

Altersunterschiede: Larvae (caterpillars) feed on leaves of host plants, while adults drink nectar from flowers.

Hauptnahrung

Nectar
Bittercress plants
Toothwort plants
Rockcress plants

Nahrungssuche

Foraging

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

eaten by

Nuttall's Bittercress

Cardamine nuttallii

Its leaves are food for Margined White caterpillars.

eaten by

California Toothwort

Dentaria californica

Young caterpillars munch on this plant's leaves.

eats

Steller's Jay

Cyanocitta stelleri

This bird may hunt and eat Margined White adults.

eats

Cross Orbweaver

Araneus diadematus

Spiders can ambush unwary butterflies in their webs.

pollinates

Canada Goldenrod

Solidago canadensis

Adult butterflies visit its flowers for nectar, spreading pollen.

Merkmale

Bestäubermagnet

Beschreibt Pflanzen, die für eine Vielzahl von bestäubenden Organismen besonders attraktiv und nützlich sind.

Farbenfroh

Farbenfroh beschreibt Organismen oder Objekte, die eine große Vielfalt an leuchtenden und deutlich erkennbaren Farben aufweisen.

Grasland

Grasland-Lebensräume sind terrestrische Biome, die von Gräsern und krautigen Pflanzen dominiert werden und einer Vielzahl von Weidetieren als Lebensraum dienen.