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Green-veined White

Pieris napi

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 100,325, February 74,098, March 116,095, April 182,645, May 263,344, June 287,159, July 307,279, August 264,259, September 194,013, October 144,816, November 79,134, December 61,849.
United States2,075,562
Alaska2,075,014
United Kingdom12,378
England10,353
Germany8,914
Russia7,501
Italy3,956
France3,619
Denmark2,295
Nord-Ovest2,294

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • MetamorphosisUndergoes dramatic body transformation during developmentFrom its classification
  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • Animal pollinatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly pollinate flowers.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderButterflies and Moths · Lepidoptera
FamilyWhites, Yellows, and Sulphurs · Pieridae
GenusGarden Whites · Pieris

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