Greece, March 2000
Greece, March 2000
This appalling picture, with the bottom of the butterfly cut off, was taken before I knew the eastern Bath white existed. I was trying to prove there were Bath whites in a colony of eastern dappled whites and it was difficult getting a picture. The book said Bath white did not fly in Greece, so I thought I was on to something. However, that was because the book counted the eastern variety as a different species and I hadn't bothered looking on the facing page. It is not separable from the western variety - not even from the male genitalia, except statistically, but the experts think it is a different species.