Yesterday I saw another pretty moth on our path. It’s also black and white but quite different from the other one.
Another pretty moth on the path
I googled it as usual. I think it’s a marbled white moth. The pattern is absolutely identical but the colour of our moth is much more faded than the photographs on google. Our moth was there a long time and I wondered if it was at the end of it’s life however when I next checked it had disappeared.
Edit
I have just googled again and now think it’s a marbled white butterfly. Both look the same but the moth is found from India to the Philippines and from Japan to Papua New Guinea whereas the butterfly is found in the U.K. and flies in July so that fits.
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I agree with your updated id. Pretty butterfly.
What threw me is that our butterfly was much paler in colour than most of the photos but when I scrolled through more photos I found some pale ones. I wonder if the males have more colour than females or perhaps they fade as they age.
I should have read where they are found to start with. Sometimes I am in too much of a hurry to squeeze a post out.
I have seen a lot of these butterflies in our garden this year, they do look as though they have faded.
That’s interesting because this is the first one I have seen this year. You are right about it looking faded.