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The great southern white butterfly is part of the Pieriade family and Pierinae subfamily.
How to identify the butterfly is the male on the forewing is a white with a black zigzag pattern on the tips of the wings. During the dry season the female looks identical to the male but the female has thicker pattern and a tiny black spot on the wing edge, the wet season the females are grey. The wing span is 6.3 to 8.6cm. The average life span for males is five days and the females are slightly longer with eight days. The butterflies feed on nectar from a range of plants which include the verbena and Iantana. Their habitat are gardens, fields, salt marshes and coastal dunes.
Butterfliesandmoths.org, (2015). Butterflies and Moths of North America | collecting and sharing data about Lepidoptera. [online] Available at: http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Ascia-monuste [Accessed 4 Apr. 2015].
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