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.

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 ...

Cross-striped cabbage worms usually show up later in the season. They have a green lower body and a colorful upper half with black stripes across their backs. They get to be about 3/4 of an inch long.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cabbage white butterflies – Pieris rapae – are one of the most common garden visitors across southern and eastern Australia. The butterfly looks ele ...