Switzerland, July 2005. The insect in the background is also a black-veined white.
Switzerland, July 2005
Switzerland, July 2005
Switzerland, July 2005
Group taking minerals, June 2006, Switzerland (southern small white in foreground)
Black-veined White
Aporia crataegi
Switzerland, July 2005. The insect in the background is also a black-veined white.
Switzerland, July 2005
Switzerland, July 2005
Switzerland, July 2005
Group taking minerals, June 2006, Switzerland (southern small white in foreground)
The black-veined white is common in much of Europe but extinct in Britain. It used to be a pest of orchards in southern England - now a fruit grower could get rich on a colony of these butterflies !
In flight, the black-veined white can be mistaken only for the clouded apollo, and it often flies in the same areas. But at rest, its wirey black venation is quite characteristic.
These insects were photographed in the cantons of Vaud and Valais, in Switzerland.