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NATURE
Butterflies
Wood White
Leptidea sinapis
Wingspan 40mm
Very local in S and SW England and S Ireland. Delicate-looking with rounded wings and feeble flight; forewings dark-tipped, most noticeably on upper surface. Flies May­July in two broods. Caterpillars eat plants of pea family.



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