Wooden frame with a black-veined butterfly (Aporia crataegi)

Description

Aporia crataegi, the black-veined white, is a large butterfly of the family Pieridae. It survives in much of Europe but it has been extinct in Great Britain since about 1925. It was a favourite of Sir Winston Churchill who tried to reintroduce the beautiful species to Southern England where it used to thrive in earlier times. He released colonies of Black veined whites in the large grounds of his home at Chartwell in Kent but they did not survive.