Cabbage white butterflies appear to be able to target the various glucosinolates, ... Aug. 11, 2021 — The cabbage butterfly, voracious as a caterpillar, is every gardener's menace.

Cabbage white butterflies – Pieris rapae – are one of the most common garden visitors across southern and eastern Australia. The butterfly looks elegant in white with black dots on its wings ...

Since 1972, he said, the first flight of the cabbage white butterfly has varied from Jan. 1 to Feb. 26, averaging about Jan. 20. P. rapae inhabits vacant lots, fields and gardens where its host plants ...

The cabbage white butterfly — also commonly known as the “imported cabbage white butterfly” — can wreak a large amount of damage on a garden quickly.

We call them cabbage moths but Victorians with a moth aversion will be relieved to know the thousands of white fluttering creatures filling the state’s skies right now are actually butterflies.

Gardeners are being encouraged to take one simple step in their gardens to deter caterpillars from damaging their plants. The cabbage moth caterpillar, a common pest in Ireland, is known for ...

There is no evidence cabbage white females are territorial. It can be useful to provide a “sacrificial” plant. Leave these out in the open to attract the adult female to lay her eggs.