Pierids
The butterfly, a cabbage-white,
(His honest idiocy of flight)
Will never now, it is too late,
Master the art of flying straight.Robert Graves, Flying Crooked
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Mating Barred Yellows
Eurema daira
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Cabbage White Butterfly
Pieris rapae
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Checkered White
Pontia protodice
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Dainty Sulphur
Nathalis iole
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Female Dina Yellow
Pyrisitia dina
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Female Cloudless Sulphur
Phoebis sennae
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Florida White
Appias drusilla
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Female Great Southern White
Ascia monuste
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Great Southern White
Ascia monuste
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Little Yellow
Pyrisitia lisa
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Cloudless Sulphurs
Phoebis sennae
This is a mating pair. -
Orange-barred Sulphur
Phoebis philea
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Orange-barred Sulphur
Phoebis philea
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Sleepy Orange
Abaeis nicippe
This is the winter form. -
Sleepy Orange
Abaeis nicippe
This Sleepy Orange is nectaring on a yellow variety of Mexican milkweed Asclepias curassavica This is the summer form. -
Southern Dogface
Zerene cesonia
You can clearly see the "dog face" on the open wings. -
Southern Dogface
Zerene cesonia
This butterfly is named after the outline of "Fido" on its wings.