Checkered White Butterfly - Pontia protodice
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Checkered White Butterfly - Pontia protodice |
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Checkered White butterflies are plentiful at the sides of roads and in fields in the spring when Virginia Peppergrass and their other host plants are growing. Female butterflies white color is not pure white but is darker in color, appearing almost as if they are dirty. Male Checkered White butterflies white is very white, as if washed in bleach. |
Butterfly Bush
Laying an egg
Laying an egg
Checkered White egg
Checkered White Caterpillar
Caterpillar on pepper grass
Molted caterpillar
Pupating and caterpillar
Pupating caterpillar
Chrysalis / Pupa
Chrysalis / Pupa
Nectar from pepper weed
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Checkered White butterflies resemble several other butterflies that also lay eggs on the same or similar host plants, Checkered White butterflies are easily identified by the black and white checkered pattern on their wings. Butterflies that resemble Checkered Whites are Great Southern Whites and Cabbage Whites. |
Nectaring from flea bane
Checkered White resting
Female flying
2 males courting
Nectar from verbena
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Checkered White butterflies are found drinking nectar from many small wild flowers. Photos on this page of adults drinking nectar from flea bane, wild verbena, frog fruit, and Virginia pepper weed. The butterfly bush photo at the top was taken in the exhibit at Shady Oak Butterfly Farm. These butterflies have a short proboscis and must drink nectar from short flowers. Other nectar plants include anise hyssop, aster, and spanish needles. |
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Shady Oak Butterfly Farm Toll free 877-485-2458 12876 SW CR 231 Brooker, Fl 32622 Stephen & Edith Smith
Located 45 minutes from the Butterfly Rainforest Exhibit at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida
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