In our area, there are two very similar butterflies, cabbage and lemongrass.
The only difference that can be observed with the naked eye is that the cabbage butterflies have snow-white wings, while the lemongrass butterflies have yellow wings like lemon peel.
If everything is clear with the cabbage butterfly, it lays eggs in a head of cabbage and the caterpillars feed on cabbage leaves, then everything is difficult with the lemongrass butterfly.
Well, we do not grow lemons and its name has nothing to do with yellow fruits, only color.
Imagine, everyone calls you lemongrass, and you have to eat everything that got into your mouth, but not lemons.
Judging by the photograph, this butterfly has not decided on its affiliation, lol, she is a rebel who decided to get rid of the mention of lemon in her life and decided to intermarry with cabbage butterflies, in whose life everything is very simple and clear.
This is probably why the wings of this butterfly began to lose their yellow color and they began to turn white.
But, as they say, blood is not wine and the butterfly strives for a yellow flower, in the hope that there, among the yellow petals, it will find the cherished lemon, lol.
Obviously, the knowledge of this butterfly in the field of bortany leaves much to be desired, because the lemon flowers are not yellow, but snow-white, like the wings of a cabbage butterfly.
Photos taken with a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX300 camera.
Author @barski.
Ukraine.
