Have you spotted these beautiful butterflies in your garden?

Thank you to Guy Roth, director of northern region agriculture at The University of Sydney’s Narrabri Campus, for sending in this beautiful photo he captured of caper white butterflies.

Readers have probably noticed them in abundance around their farm or gardens in recent weeks .

It’s believed the rainfall and warm conditions earlier this year might have encouraged the butterflies to breed and resulted in a large amount of the pretty creatures fluttering about from the month of March.

The upper wing is white with black edging while the lower wing has distinctive yellow and orange markings and black and white margins.

“The caterpillars are impressive – dark brown to dark olive green with white and yellow dots with a few hairs on their sides,” said Dr Roth.

“They don’t eat a lot compared to most caterpillars of similar size, which is presumably part of their survival mechanism in the inland bush.

“They have migrated into the region from the inland where they breed up on various caper species plants like the wild orange which also grows around here.

“They are flying around trees and shrubs in paddocks as well as gardens during the day. They will rest on plants at night.”