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 success of the small cabbage white butterfly is the consequences of human activities. Through trade and migration humans humans helped to inadvertently spread the pest beyond its natural range, ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘N. Donaldtrumpi’ Is From the ‘Boharti’ — New species of moth recently discovered in our Bohart collection has presidential hair, says the Canadian scientist who named it. The emergence of the first ...

When Kristen Giefer’s father would tend to his vegetable garden, he’d come across small creatures, the likes of which he called, “cabbage worms.” Giefer would eventually learn these ...

Be a lady (or gent) in the street and a cabbage white butterfly in the sheets. The cabbage white butterfly might look like the boring version of the majestic Monarch or the Emerald Swallowtail – but ...

Experts warn Melbourne and Sydney gardeners to look out for the species, commonly referred to as the cabbage moth, which has flourished this year An astonishing number of cabbage hornets and ...

Cruciferous plants, such as cabbage, rapeseed, horseradish or mustard, have a special defense strategy against herbivores called the "mustard oil bomb". They store glucosinolates as defensive ...