All articles about butterflies of the world

The tentacled moth is a large or medium-sized butterfly with a thick, hairy body from the Lasiocampidae family. They can hardly be considered light, beautiful butterflies that you would run across the lawn and watch them flutter.

In science, its name is Aporia crataegi. White with black veins, it is often confused with the Cabbage White. The butterfly begins its mass flight at the end of May. The caterpillars of the Cabbage White live on bird cherry trees. In hot weather, the butterflies gather around […]

Scientific name: Zegris eupheme. The Eupheme white is a mealy-white butterfly with a yellowish bloom and a black spot in the middle. The forewings have an orange-yellow or reddish spot. The lower wings have a greenish marble pattern.

The scientific name of the Alpine white is Pontia callidice. It is a daytime butterfly, greyish in colour, with males having a dark border with elongated white spots on top. It lives high in the Alps, in the Caucasus and in Siberia. Butterflies from the northern part of its range have more […]

Scientific name: Pontia daplidice. Very variable and regularly migratory white butterfly, flies to North Africa in autumn. Length of the forewing is about 25 mm. The butterfly has sharply defined veins and several dark spots in the corners of the wings. Spring generation […]

In science, this butterfly is called Pieris chloridice. It is a day butterfly. It is powdery white with grey spots in the corners and along the edge of the wings. The hind wings have a bright green pattern underneath.

The Cabbage White is a diurnal butterfly of the family Belladonna. Another name is the turnip. It is similar to the Cabbage White, but smaller (wing length 20-30 mm). The front wings are white, slightly yellowish in females.

Scientific name: Leptidea sinapis. It is a diurnal butterfly from the family of white butterflies (Pieridae), which also includes such well-known butterflies as the Cabbage White, Lemon White, etc.

Or the buckthorn, scientific name - Gonepteryx rhamni. Belongs to the family of Whites. The butterfly is easy to identify by its wings - they seem to be cut by something sharp. The male of the Schisandra is bright yellow, the female is greenish-white. In the middle of each wing there is a red-orange spot. […]

Cabbage, or White cabbage (Pieris brassicae L.). A diurnal butterfly from the Whitefly family (Pieridae). Bright white or bright yellow wings with small black spots on the ends of the wings. Cabbage feeds on all types of crops, not just cabbage.

  List of butterflies of the whitefly family: Cabbage (Pieris brassicae L.) Lemongrass (Gonepteryx rhamni) Pea whitefly (Leptidea sinapis) Turnip whitefly (Pieris rapae) Greenfly whitefly (Pieris chloridice) Rape whitefly (Pontia daplidice) Alpine whitefly (Pontia callidice) Hey whitefly fema (Zegris eupheme) […]

This section presents pictures with butterflies that can be used as wallpaper for your desktop. Watch and enjoy! =)

Below we describe what types of butterflies there are. Their species are actually diverse and many are known. See names: Cabbage Whites (Pieris brassicae L.) Lemongrass (Gonepteryx rhamni) Pea Whites (Leptidea sinapis) Turnip Whites (Pieris rapae) Greenskin Whites […]

Ancient ideas about butterflies are associated with the most important concepts for a person: life and death, soul, happiness, love.

Many features of butterflies are very peculiar and are not found in other insects. The most characteristic of them are the sucking mouth apparatus and the scaly cover of the wings. The vast majority of butterflies have both of these traits. In the same cases when […]