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Eucchloe ausonia - Eastern Dappled White
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JTh
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Eucchloe ausonia - Eastern Dappled White
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April 13, 2015, 02:20:41 PM »
I have never seen this butterfly before, it is quite small, green with yellow speckles and fairly large, white spots.
P4100116 Euchloe ausonia Eastern Dappled White.jpg
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Retired veterinary surgeon by training with a PhD in parasitology, but worked as a virologist since 1992.
Member of the MGS since 2004. Gardening in Oslo and to a limited extent in Halkidiki, Greece.
MikeHardman
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May 03, 2015, 10:08:12 PM »
Jorun,
We get that and other related species in Cyprus. They are just a bit more interesting than your average white butterfly.
Not least because of the optical illusion...
Green is a colour made by butterflies and moths, but:
- some of the green pigments fade quickly to a straw colour (especially with emerald and
bollworm
moths)
- the most stable greens are achieved not by pigment but by
interference/refraction/diffraction
- the apparent green in bath whites and orange tips (as shown in your photo) is actually a mixture of yellow and black pigmented scales - giving a green effect (at least to our eyes) without resorting to structural optics and without fading
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I garden near Polis, Cyprus, 100m alt., on marl, but have gardened mainly in S.England
JTh
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May 04, 2015, 06:25:21 AM »
Thank you, Mike, interesting information. The butterfly was nice, but not extremely exciting, something I had never seen before
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