The pine white butterfly can be found in pine and fir forests.
Diet The pine white butterfly eats the nectar of flowers including rabbitbrush and beebalm. The caterpillar eats the needles of various conifers including pines, Douglas-fir and true firs.
Large White Butterfly - 10 points
This butterfly and its relative the Small White often feeds on garden cabbages and nasturtiums. Many are residents, but are boosted by invasions from Continental Europe.
Humming-bird Hawk-moth - 50 points ...
CABBAGE WHITE BUTTERFLY
The cabbage butterfly (or cabbage butterfly), Pieris rapae, is a white butterfly with a black body. The two upper wings have black bands on the upper margins. Each wing has a black spot in its center. It has a 1.3-1.
Adult Cabbage White Butterfly
Adult Caper White Butterfly
Adult Caper White on flower
Adult Carpet Beetle
Adult Common Imperial Blue Butterfly
Adult dartfish, Ptereleotris spp
Adult Emperor Gum Moth
Adult female Orchard Butterfly ...
Cabbage White Butterfly / Large White ( Pieris brassicae )
Carpenter Bee ( Xylocopa violacea )
Cercopis sanguinolenta
Club-tailed Dragonfly ( Gomphus vulgatissimus )
Colorado Potato Beetle ( Leptinotarsa decemlineata )
Chrysomela fastuosa ...
The Bath White is a small white butterfly with a wingspan of 45 to 50 mm. The underside of the hindwing has a pattern of greenish blotches, which is characteristic of the Bath Whites and easily identifies it from other pierids.
Hemitaurichthys zoster, Brown-and-white Butterflyfish
Hemitaurichthys polylepis, Pyramid Butterflyfish
Heniochus diphreutes, False Moorish Idol
Heniochus chrysostomus, Threeband Pennantfish
Heniochus acuminatus, Pennant Coralfish ...
Wood white butterfly (Leptidea sinapis)
Chinese water deer (Hydropotes inermis)
Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)
Spectacled hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes conspicillatus)
Short-toed snake-eagle (Circaetus gallicus)
Eurasian eagle-owl (Bubo bubo) ...
The underside of the cabbage white butterfly is yellow with gray spots. This butterfly grows to be between 1 to 2 inches in length. Like other insects, it has antennae, 6 legs, 4 wings, and 3 parts to its body.
Stevenson mentions in his 'Birds of Norfolk' (1866) having flushed several cuckoos that had congregated in some gooseberry bushes in a garden at Bramerton and that the attraction proved to be an infestation of large white butterfly caterpillars, ...
Except in southern Arizona or Mexico, it is only white butterfly that frequents pines. Some consider the Pine White a forest pest because the caterpillars can, during rare outbreaks, completely defoliate conifers.
9% were home to Pteromalus paparum, a tiny “non-target' parasitic wasp, which was introduced to control the growing population of small white butterfly (Peris rapae).
 See also: Caterpillar, Sea Lion, Lizard, Diver, Andean cat
  
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