cabbage butterfly

Female cabbage butterflies, for example, use ultraviolet light to communicate, with scales colored in this range on the dorsal wing surface.

Place a sheet of fine netting a few inches above cabbages and brassicas to keep cabbage white butterflies away.

A common North American form (P. protodice) is known as the southern cabbage butterfly.

As a result, male white cabbage butterflies must have a preference for a certain level of UV reflectance from females.

The cabbage white butterfly lays its eggs on members of the Brassica genus.

Looking at it, all she could think to say was, "The European cabbage butterfly has the most remarkable coiled proboscis.

Mischa sat in the gleaming tub among the vegetables in the warm sun, white cabbage butterflies around her.

There is the cabbage butterfly, for instance.

And yes, I know floating row covers would keep them off - the cabbage butterflies too - but who wants to wrap the garden in gauze?

Does that mean that the 1,058 cabbage white butterflies counted last year were not exact?