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: females have ...

The cabbage butterfly, voracious as a caterpillar, is every gardener's menace. Turns out, these lovely white or sulfur yellow butterflies started trying to take over the planet millions of years ...

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 ...

Question: I see white butterflies landing on my kale, then later green caterpillars decimate the leaves. What do I need to do to stop this from happening, since I love kale? Answer: The arrival of ...

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 of ...

It’s official—cabbage whites are the stuff of nightmares for rookie and veteran gardeners alike. The infamous cabbage white butterfly (known both as a day and night butterfly) loves to lay its eggs ...

A butterfly for a beer? Suds for a bug? The annual “Butterfly for a Beer” contest, sponsored by Art Shapiro, distinguished professor of evolution and ecology at the University of California, Davis, ...

We may have our Eastern Mediterranean neighbors to thank for the multivoltine species, the Pieris rapae cabbage white butterflies in our garden these days. Like the monarch butterfly, the cabbage ...

The cabbage butterfly, voracious as a caterpillar, is every gardener's menace. Turns out, these lovely white or sulfur yellow butterflies started trying to take over the planet long ago. Biologists ...