#3085 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Orange Sulphur

Colias eurytheme

LCleast concern 🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Chrissy McClarren and Andy Reago · CC0
2. © Don Loarie · CC BY 4.0
3. © Ale Türkmen (The Butterfly Project Mexico) · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. © Roger Rittmaster · CC BY 4.0
5. © Jim Dugan · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Highland, MD, US:© J. S. Joseph · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Tinicum, Pennsylvania, United States:© Bill Keim · CC BY 4.0
8. Stewart Tract aka River Islands Lathrop, CA, USA:© Philip Fiorio · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Thunder Bay District, ON, Canada:© Rob Foster · CC BY 4.0
10. Saint George Marsh, NB E5C, Canada:© Jimmy Dee · CC BY-SA 4.0

what is it?

Colias eurytheme , the orange sulphur , also known as the alfalfa butterfly and in its larval stage as the alfalfa caterpillar , is a butterfly of the family Pieridae, where it belongs to the lowland group of "clouded yellows and sulphurs" subfamily Coliadinae. It is found throughout North America from southern Canada to Mexico, but is absent from the central and southeastern United States.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 72,908iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
72,908 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1852 (174 years ago).