Pity, also as measures which will have to be taken for art 10 (pollinators, measures and monitoring obliged) will also work for the GBI species (as butterflies are part of the four pollinator groups). Also monitoring would have benifited. Would have been effective use of resources.

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We are also deeply saddened that the Madeiran Large White, Pieris wollastoni, is now officially extinct: it was last seen in 1986. The full report can be downloaded here www.bc-europe.eu/documents/68...

Though I wonder, because it is normally typical for C hyale to be attrackted to its host plant, C alfacariensis feeds on H comosa and Coronilla varia and probably others). They can only be seperated by DNA or by larvae (which are relatively easy to id).

It is clearly a Colias hyale/alfacariensis, which cannot be separated in the field, but C hyale does not occur (as far as I know) south of the Alps, so this must be alfacariensis.

Colias alfacariensis

This is a Clouded Yellow Colias croceus, another species, and a migrant from the south.