White Monarch Butterfly

A White Monarch Butterfly which can be found in parts of Hawaii

When I was taking photos of this butterfly, I was pretty sure it was a Monarch, but it didn’t look right. Monarch’s are a striking orange and black. This one looked washed out in comparison. It wasn’t until I got home and consulted my butterfly book that I learned a white morph exists on Oahu and the Big Island and this was undoubtedly one of those. There’s also a brown morph on Kaua’i.

7 thoughts on “White Monarch Butterfly

  1. kzmcb's avatarkzmcb

    We’ll, I never. We’ve got oodles of monarchs at the moment, and mostly the orange and black, but we get the black and white ones too. Maybe in a different season? I’ll keep an eye on them.

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