The Cabbage White is a true butterfly. It is tricky to distinguish a moth from a butterfly at first glance since they are both winged and both members of the Order Lepidoptera.

Nathan Morehouse wasn’t expecting to discover anything extraordinary when he started studying the cabbage white butterfly. Small, plainly colored, and common across six continents, it’s a ...

A common butterfly, the cabbage white, forages gardens and crops, inviting pest control. But it is worth scientists’ study for its reproduction process.

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Is it a monarch butterfly or an imitator, a white moth, or a cabbage white butterfly? These possible questions and the interest in being part of something continent-wide may have led eleven ...

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 ...

A cabbage moth’s whole life cycle was usually completed in just three weeks, with each female moth able to lay about 150 eggs in her short lifetime. Recent wet, humid conditions have delivered ...

Researchers report that larvae of the cabbage white butterfly use two gut enzymes to effectively disarm the mustard oil bomb, the major chemical defense system of their host plants. Cabbage white ...

But the symbolic meaning of a white butterfly may be more powerful than you expect. ... (The Cabbage White is the most common ...

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.

Why Victoria’s sky is full of white butterflies, or cabbage moths. We call them cabbage moths but Victorians with a moth aversion will be relieved to know the white fluttering creatures in their ...