Common White Wave

Wingspan 28–33 mm. The Latin name means “little girl”. Shining white wings, sometimes with a pink sheen. It is common and flies in two generationsgeneration A butterfly flies in 2 generations when the year’s first newly emerged adults (1st generation) bring a new “brood” (“children”) capable of flight into the world in the same year. With 3 generations there are “grandchildren” as well in the same year. The number of generations determines in how many months of the year we can see the butterfly.× from May to September. Flies both by day and by night and lives mainly along woodland edges and in scrub. Seen above all in the plantation, where it flies unsteadily, with a bouncing motion, through the vegetation – preferably in the shade. The caterpillar lives from June to September on birch, willow and alder, and overwinters as a pupa.