Type of Insect: butterfly
Size: medium
Overall Color: yellow and brownish
Larval Foods: legumes
Adult Foods:
Larval Type: caterpillar
status: very common
Description: yellow butterfly with brownish markings on upper side of wings, common through most of the U.S.
Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class: Hexapoda (Insects)
Order: Lepidoptera (butterflies,moths)
Family: 02 Pieridae (whites,sulfurs)
SubFamily: 02 Coliadinae (sulfurs)
Genus: Colias
Species: philodice
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