Green-veined white butterflies are a type of white butterflies. To find out about them bellow.
What it eats and what eats it
Their caterpillars eat garlic mustard, cuckoo flowers, hedge mustard and many more. When they are adults they eat nectar from flowers. Birds, spiders and others eat Green-veined white butterflies.
Lifecycle
When they are a egg they are small and yellow and laid singularly on host plants. When they are caterpillars they are green with faint stripes. When they are chrysalis they are green or brown and attached to a stem. When they are an adult butterfly they have white wings with green veined underwings.
Habitat
The Green-veined white butterfly prefers damp areas with vegetation. It is quite common in the uk. It can also be found in gardens.
Fun facts
They can have 2 to 3 generations in one year.
They look like other white butterflies but they have Green veined underwings.
Sources
the wildlife trusts
naturespot
butterfly conservation
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