We’ve posted the dorsal view of the Long-tailed blue butterfly. Here is the view that we usually see. Ah, those eyespots!
Taking a break at Ramat Hanadiv, the luxurious arboretum in Israel’s coastal plain, Lampides boeticus shows her characteristic white stripe in this view.
Photographed in July 2009, it is found throughout Israel and it quite common in a variety of habitats, including in the center of Tel Aviv.
Jeffrey
Pieris rapae nectaring on Yellow hawkweed along the Nichol Road trail at Raccoon Creek State Park’s western boundary.
Why are so many of our posts photographed at this Pennsylvania state Park? It produces results, with an abundance of habitats, moisture, vast open fields all enabling me to identify more than 60 species within the park boundaries.
Our cabbage white has 2 black spots in the middle of each forewing, so we know he is a male. Females have a single black spot there.
Easily adapts to diverse environments, making this species a world traveler . . . encountered far and wide.
Many years ago we knew it as the European cabbage white. Only recently have I erased that first word from my lexicon.
One of the first butterflies to be seen in very early Spring and one of the last to be spotted in late Fall.
Jeffrey
Winged Beauty Butterflies 