Large Marble
(Euchloe ausonides)
Whites
Appearance: Hindwing underneath white with yellow veins and dark green marbling cutting across the veins. Tip of white forewing beneath similarly patterned. Above, forewing has white with black patterning at tip and black cell end bar.
Wingspan: Medium; though can be smaller than 1 1/4 to 2 inches.
Habitat: Frequents wide variety of open habitats, meadows and forest openings, and frequently flies low along streams sides and trails; foothills, montane, alpine.
Flight Times: April to late July. Chrysalis overwinters.
Larval Foodplant: Mustard family plants.
Did You Know…
With magnification the green marbling is revealed to be due to green and black scales in close proximity (Pyle, 2002).
