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I have so many pictures of this Butterfly both transparencies and now digital, it is a lovely butterfly to observe in the wild and is common where I go filming on chalk hill downs of Farley Mount and St. Catharine Hill near Winchester, Hampshire.
Being a sluggish butterfly and gregarious, in the past when testing different films, flash equitment and lenses, I have found the Marbled white an ideal subject. I do not have much experience in breeding butterflies in captivity, but do remember as a schoolboy collecting some Marbled White butterflies, and placing them in cage for my moths. And was surprised to see the butterflies not only mating but later the females were scattering there eggs onto the bottom of the cage.
The eggs are not sticky like most other species, and the butterfly scatters them in the ground, as the caterpillars feed on grasses. They hibernate through the winter and feed the following year, on sunny days they will even feed in January.
Butterflies are on the wing from mid-June to mid-July.
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