Island Marble with Mustard Plant

ID: 449 ~ Source: https://www.nps.gov/sajh/learn/nature/island-marble-butterfly.htm

This file appears in: The Island Marble

The butterfly shown is resting on a flowering mustard plant, the native or non-native species of plant the butterfly prefers.

This file appears in: The Island Marble

The Island Marble – Butterfly back from the brink

By Deanna Bugel

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…