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UK Status: Resident.

Wing Span: 40mm to 52mm.

Flight Period: April until June.

Habitat: Woodland fringes and rides, hedgerows, meadows, damp marshy places, and other open places where the food plants grow.

Comment: Common resident to the British Isles, but is not seen quite as far north as the Large White.

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UK Status: Resident & Migrant.

Wing Span: 58mm to 63mm.

Flight Period: March until Autumn.

Habitat: Almost any where, and visit the flowers of many plants. Common in the late summer and autumn, populations re-enforced by migrants.

Comment: Common and wide spread in the UK. Also a known as pests of crops.

UK Status: Resident & Migrant.

Wing Span: 38mm to 57mm.

Flight Period: March until Autumn.

Habitat: Almost any where, and visit the flowers of many plants. Common in the late summer and autumn, populations re-enforced by migrants.

Comment: A Common and wide spread resident and migrant the UK,  but not quite as far north as the Large White.

UK Status: Resident.

Wing Span: 40mm to 52mm.

Flight Period: April until September.

Habitat: Appears to require damp, lush vegetation, and does not do well in dry summers. This species is not a pest on brassicae crops, unlike the other two common white butterflies.

Comment: Common resident and wide spread throughout the British Isles.

UK Status: Migrant.

Wing Span: 52mm to 62mm.

Flight Period: May until Autumn.

Habitat: Open sunny area's where other food plants are abundant.

Comment: A migrant to the UK. A few make it here from the continent most years. In some years there is a large influx, and in warm enough summers they can be seen in southern Scotland.

UK Status: Resident.

Wing Span: 60mm to 74mm.

Flight Period: Most of the year, except during hibernation.

Habitat: Wooded areas, migratory and turns up any where.

Comment: Common in England, some parts of Wales, and south Scotland, scarce and local in Ireland.