Orange sulfur
Colias eurytheme

Type of Insect: butterfly
Size: medium
Overall Color: orange and yellow and brownish
Larval Foods: legumes
Adult Foods:
Larval Type: caterpillar
status: very common
Description: yellow and orange 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: eurytheme