I'm walking through a wonderful meadow in Morden Hall Park where a myriad colourful wild flowers grow. Butterflies reacted immediately too with small tortoiseshell, red admiral, comma, peacock and marbled white all fluttering around and on the wild flowers joyfully grateful for the sun at last.
If we include the dainty orange tip and rare wood white there are five species of white butterfly in Britain, the others being large white, sometimes called cabbage white, plus the small green-veined all on the wing from April throughout the summer in two or three broods, weather permitting.
None of the white species hibernate and spend the winter in the chrysalis stage. The large white is our only so-called pest species, laying large batches of eggs underneath cabbage leaves.
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