little sulphur
Eurema lisa
Identification: Wingspan 1.2 - 1.8 inches. Yellow to pale whitish-yellow (females) with black forewing apex; hindwing with narrow black margin, often reduced to series of black patches in females. Ventral hindwing yellow to pale whitish-yellow with two tiny black basal spots, small irregular dark pattern elements, and a pinkish patch (sometimes absent) along the upper margin. Winter form (dry season) individuals darker and more heavily patterned below with dark pink wing fringes.
Habitat: Most sunny, dry locations including old fields, pastures, fallow agricultural land, roadsides, and along the edges of open scrub and pineland.
Garden Habit: Females deposit their small white spindle shaped eggs singly on the leaves of the host plant. The mature caterpillar is green with fine short hairs and lengthwise cream stripes. The caterpillars feed exposed on the leaves of the host plant. Several generations are produced each year. Adults overwinter in a kind of hibernation called reproductive diapause.
Host Plants: Members of the pea family including wild false indigo, partridge pea, sensitive pea.
Identification: Wingspan 1.2 - 1.8 inches. Yellow to pale whitish-yellow (females) with black forewing apex; hindwing with narrow black margin, often reduced to series of black patches in females. Ventral hindwing yellow to pale whitish-yellow with two tiny black basal spots, small irregular dark pattern elements, and a pinkish patch (sometimes absent) along the upper margin. Winter form (dry season) individuals darker and more heavily patterned below with dark pink wing fringes.
Habitat: Most sunny, dry locations including old fields, pastures, fallow agricultural land, roadsides, and along the edges of open scrub and pineland.
Garden Habit: Females deposit their small white spindle shaped eggs singly on the leaves of the host plant. The mature caterpillar is green with fine short hairs and lengthwise cream stripes. The caterpillars feed exposed on the leaves of the host plant. Several generations are produced each year. Adults overwinter in a kind of hibernation called reproductive diapause.
Host Plants: Members of the pea family including wild false indigo, partridge pea, sensitive pea.