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Sulphurs/Whites 13 images Created 3 Apr 2012

Believed to be the origin of the word "butterfly", these often buttery yellow and pale white members of the Pieridae family are found all around the world and are heavily concentrated in tropical Africa and Asia, with a strong New World representation in northern North America. Sulphurs are best associated with their host plants - Fabaceae (beans and peas) while the whites are often found in close proximity to their host plants in the crucifer family (wild mustards).
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  • The lyside sulphur butterfly is one of those highly active tropical pale yellow-to-white butterflies often seen flittering about patches of wildflowers and bushes, often joined by others butterfly species and bees, such as this one in South Texas in the Rio Grande Valley. This species is widespread in Texas and Mexico, and can be found in Arizona, Nicaragua, Guatemala, the Caribbean Islands and South Florida.
    Lyside Sulphur
  • These absolutely beautiful little sulphur butterflies are typically extremely difficult to photograph, but on this occasion this pair down in Cameron County, Texas in the Rio Grande Valley was more than a little preoccupied. The little yellow (Eurema lisa) is widespread and can be found throughout most of the eastern United States, southern Ontario and Quebec in Canada, and and all of Mexico and Central America.
    Breeding Pair of Little Yellows (Eur..isa)
  • One of those maddeningly fast and difficult to photograph butterflies, the cabbage white never seems to stop flying, even while it is feeding. Although it is native to Europe, Asia and North Africa, it was accidentally released in Canada in the 1860's and spread throughout North America where it has become a pest to Brassicaceae crops (cabbage, kale, broccoli, horseradish, etc.) as the voracious little caterpillars are better known as the cabbage worm (not a real worm). This one was found feeding on Himalayan blackberry blossoms in an open field near the Carbon River near Mount Rainier, Washington.
    Cabbage White Butterfly
  • Male cloudless sulphur seen at Wakulla Springs in northern Florida on an exotic red spider lily.
    Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae)
  • This very common large yellow butterfly is found across a huge range, from Southern Ontario in Canada to as far south as Argentina. This individual is a male (the female has slightly more of a pattern on the underside of the wings, but not much) and was photographed feeding on caesarweed nectar just outside of Naples, Florida on the outskirts of the Corkscrew Swamp.
    Cloudless Sulphur
  • Male checkered white butterfly photographed in Bokeelia on Pine Island near the Calusa Indian Mounds in Lee County, Florida.
    Checkered White (Pontia protodice)
  • This tiny butterfly was photographed near the Ochlockonee River in North Florida.
    Sleepy Orange (Eurema nicippe)
  • A male stella orangetip butterfly feeds on the nectar of blooming wax currants in Central Oregon near Bend. This is a subspecies of the in the sara orangetip complex, and is mostly found in the Pacific Northwest east of the Cascades where the habitat is much more arid and dry.
    Male Stella Orangetip
  • Cloudless sulphur in early fall at the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge.
    Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae)
  • A great southern white butterfly chased down and photographed among the mangroves on Coquina Beach, in Manatee County, Florida.
    Great Southern White (Ascia monuste)
  • A beautiful male orange sulphur butterfly sips nectar from wild pea flowers near the USA-Mexico border in Southern Hidalgo County, Texas.
    Orange Sulphur (Colias eurytheme)
  • One of those maddeningly fast and difficult to photograph butterflies, the cabbage white never seems to stop flying, even while it is feeding. Although it is native to Europe, Asia and North Africa, it was accidentally released in Canada in the 1860's and spread throughout North America where it has become a pest to Brassicaceae crops (cabbage, kale, broccoli, horseradish, etc.) as the voracious little caterpillars are better known as the cabbage worm (not a real worm). This one was seen perching on some native buttercup leaves next to Soos Creek, part of the Green River watershed system in Kent, Washington on a very hot summer day.
    Cabbage White Butterfly
  • The lyside sulphur butterfly is one of those highly active tropical pale yellow-to-white butterflies often seen flittering about patches of wildflowers and bushes, often joined by others butterfly species and bees, such as this one in South Texas in the Rio Grande Valley. This species is widespread in Texas and Mexico, and can be found in Arizona, Nicaragua, Guatemala, the Caribbean Islands and South Florida.
    Lyside Sulphur