This species is extremely common in the Great Yeldham area.

The Green-veined White has two broods per year. The larval food plants are various members of the cabbage family, such as Garlic Mustard which is common in hedgerows in the parish. The adults like damp places and are common in the boggy parts of the paddock at Roseland House where they take nectar from Valerian and Water Mint. They over-winter as pupae, hatching in spring. The adults are on the wing from midspring to early autumn with a slight gap between broods in late June.

They differ from Small Whites by the upper-side wing veins ending in grey triangles and by green to grey veins on the undersides.