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Green-veined White butterfly, Spey Bay
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Moray - Spey Bay
Green-veined White (Pieris napi) butterfly on Yarrow at Spey Bay. It is similar to other white butterflies, but has prominent green stripes on the undersides of its wings. It also has black wingtips and one or two black spots on the forewing. Photo taken by David Palmar.
26 July 2023
Green-veined White butterfly, Inver, Jura
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Jura
A somewhat ragged-looking Green-veined White (Pieris napi) butterfly at Inver, Jura, taken by David Palmar
20 August 2022
Green-veined White butterfly on Common (or Black) Knapweed, Carrifran Wildwood, Moffat
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Carrifran Wildwood
Green-veined White (Pieris napi) butterfly on Common (or Black) Knapweed (Centaurea nigra), Carrifran Wildwood, Moffat
17 September 2020
Green-veined White butterfly, Bridgeness, Bo'ness
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Falkirk - Bo'ness and Kinneil
Green-veined White (Pieris napi) butterfly at the former Bridgeness Shipbreakers Yard, Bo'ness, a habitat creation project run by Buglife Scotland as part of the activities of the Inner Forth Landscape Initiative.
02 August 2017
Green-veined white butterflies on Lady's Smock, South Uist
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Western Isles - South Uist
A pair of Green-veined white butterflies (Pieris napi) on Lady's Smock (Cardamine pratensis), North Boisdale (Baghasdail)
25 May 2017
Green-veined White butterfly, Munsary, Caithness
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Caithness - Munsary Peatlands Plantlife Reserve
Green-veined White butterfly (Pieris napi) Munsary Plantlife nature reserve, Caithness
16 July 2017
Green-veined White butterfly, RSPB Loch Lomond
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Loch Lomond - RSPB Loch Lomond
Green-veined White (Pieris napi) butterfly, Twenty Acres, RSPB Loch Lomond
10 June 2017
Green-veined White butterfly on Ragged Robin, Eigg
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Eigg - Cleadale
Green-veined White butterfly (Pieris napi) on Ragged Robin (Lychnis flos-cuculi), Bay of Laig, Cleadale, Eigg. A common butterfly preferring damp areas, the Green-veined White can be identified by its prominent greenish veins on the white/yellow hind wing. The upper wings have one or more dark spots.
27 August 2016
Green-veined White on Knapweed
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North Lanarkshire - Baron's Haugh and Dalzell Woods
The Green-veined White (Pieris napi) is a common and widespread butterfly that prefers damp habitat where its food plants can be found. This one was photographed on Knapweed (Centaurea nigra) at Baron's Haugh RSPB Nature Reserve, Motherwell, Lanarkshire
21 August 2016
Green-veined White butterfly on Creeping thistle, Skinflats
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Falkirk - Skinflats
The Green-veined White (Pieris napi) is a common and widespread butterfly which prefers damp habitat where its foodplants can be found. This one was photographed on Creeping thistle (Cirsium arvense) at RSPB Skinflats, Falkirk.
