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.

The caterpillar form of an unassuming, small, white butterfly is among the world's most invasive pests affecting agricultural crops, and a newly published paper by a consortium of scientists ...

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 ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The caterpillar form of an unassuming, small, white butterfly is among the world's most invasive pests affecting agricultural crops, and a newly published paper by a consortium ...

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 year 2008 was designated the Year of Reading and the Year of the Potato. But I have renamed it the Year of the Cabbage White Caterpillar. It seems others feel the same because whenever I see ...

LAST Monday I wrote about the birds in my garden and on Tuesday I got a number of emails from readers full of interesting information, particularly about the family life of the house sparrow.

It's the caterpillar laid by the Cabbage White Butterfly - most active in autumn and spring, but it still does damage in winter and it can cause a lot of damage very 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.