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Pale Beauties
ELEGANCE NOW FLIES AND BLOOMS in shades of white. During my meanderings so far this month, I’ve found pale beauty where plants and insects converge. Above, for example, a common (and non-native) Cabbage White butterfly (Pieris rapae) nectars on Joe-Pye Weed at a wetland in Peacham, Vermont. Below you’ll find other convergences of white and color and flight, including a moth, Campaea perlata, whose common name I’ve chosen for the title of this post.
![lycaena-phlaeas-vt-8aug2016](https://bryanpfeiffer.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/lycaena-phlaeas-vt-8aug2016.jpg)
Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas), formerly known as American Copper, nectaring on Boneset in Morristown, Vermont, on 8Aug2016.
![boloria-selene-vt-8aug2016](https://bryanpfeiffer.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/boloria-selene-vt-8aug2016.jpg)
Silver-bordered Fritiallary (Boloria selene) nectaring on Boneset in Morristown, Vermont, on 8Aug2016.
![celastrina-vt-30jul2016](https://bryanpfeiffer.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/celastrina-vt-30jul2016.jpg)
A butterfly I’ll call Azure species (Celastrina sp.) until the taxonomy is resolved, in Peacham, Vermont, on 30Jul2016. (More on the taxonomy in a future blog post.)
![An orchid that I believe is White Fringed Orchid from a bog in Lamoille County, Vermont.](https://bryanpfeiffer.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/habinaria-species-vt-8aug2016.jpg)
An orchid that I believe is White Fringed Orchid from a bog in Lamoille County, Vermont.
![A Pale Beauty (Campaea perlata) moth from Steuben, Maine, on 23Jun2016](https://bryanpfeiffer.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/campaea-perlata-pale-beauty-me-23jun2016.jpg)
A Pale Beauty (Campaea perlata) moth from Steuben, Maine, on 23Jun2016