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 ...

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.

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 enormous numbers of ‘Large Cabbage Whites’ (Pieris brassicæ (L.)) which entered England last summer were preyed upon very frequently by birds, and this Department received many ...

WOULD some entomologist state if he knows of any reference to the fact that the larv of the Large Cabbage White seek to arrange themselves in pairs—male and female—when they pupate?

Surprisingly, cabbage white caterpillars are not actually white they’re green! The name refers to their love of cabbage leaves and metamorphosis into white butterflies when they reach adulthood.

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.