Island Marble Butterfly

ID: 448 ~ Source: https://www.nps.gov/sajh/learn/nature/island-marble-butterfly.htm

This file appears in: The Island Marble

This image clearly displays the marbling of the wings that butterfly was named after.

This file appears in: The Island Marble

The Island Marble – Butterfly back from the brink

In 1998, it was discovered that the once thought to be extinct Island Marble Butterfly was back within the San Juan Islands. The Island Marble (Euchloe ausonides insulanus) was only widespread throughout Vancouver Island and British Columbia but due…