Checkered White Butterfly

This is video of a butterfly I’ve seen, but never looked at closely. I was mowing my yard and noticed a white butterfly flittering around. Naturally I pulled out my camera and shot it… I meant captured… took a video of it! Seriously, I think it’s a pretty little thing & I hope you do too.

From the information I gleened from butterfliesandmoths.org this is a Checkered White Butterfly. Their wingspan can be 2 inches wide. The top side of the male’s forewing exhibits the black checkered pattern on the outer portion. The females are more patterned. Hindwings are white on males & females.

According to https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/ it is known as Pontia protodice. It is a common pierid butterfly throughout the United States. The larva which are sometimes found in garden plants are known as southern cabbageworms. This is the accepted name for this species in the Entomological Society of America's Common Names of Insects & Related Organisms list, and is the name most often found in books on economic entomology (Capinera 2001, Cranshaw 2004, Metcalf and Metcalf 1993).

The species is known in butterfly books by the common name “the checkered white” (Allen 1997, Brock and Kaufman 2003, Cech and Tudor 2005, Daniels 2003, Glassberg et al. 2000, Minno et al. 2005, Opler and Krizek 1984, Scott 1986, Wagner 2005). This is also the common name used in the North American Butterfly Association's Checklist of North American Butterflies Occurring North of Mexico.

Please find more information about this and other butterflies and moths at:

https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Pontia-protodice

and

https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/veg/leaf/checkered_white.htm

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