Before the end of the 19th Century, British Large Whites were already establishing themselves all over the world.

In the first three years of that decade more than 8,500 pedigree Large Whites were exported to all parts of the world.

They also called their forged half-crowns large whites and forged shillings small whites.

Of course, it's possible that having large whites of the eyes serves some other purpose, like enabling me to advertise my good health to potential mates.

It was originally created through a grading up breeding process that involved breeding Large Whites and Edelschwein lines with native Bulgarian pigs in the early twentieth century.

Even in the dim moonlight and the occasional beam of light through a window of the presidential palace, Remo could see their eyes, bugged, large whites, staring out of their heads.

There is the cabbage butterfly, for instance.

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

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

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

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

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

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

All those nasturtiums that I have planted and the arugula that has flowered are favorites of the cabbage butterfly.

"A cabbage butterfly," suggested Diana.

It is also found in the caterpillar of the cabbage butterfly, Pieris rapae where it serves as a defence against ants.

Yet the little white cabbage butterfly has been observed laying its eggs on the outer reaches of a particular cabbage patch, rather than in the center.

Cabbage butterflies are laying eggs, so cover tender crucifers with spun cloth like Reemay, or keep an eye out for the voracious cabbage worms.

Its border of roses and 'cabbage butterflies took on a flushed glow from Mrs. Grose's paisley-draped Tiffany lamps.

They are greysh-greenish, with black dots and broad yellow stripes, quite similar to the larva of the Cabbage Butterfly (Pieris brassicae).

The names "Cabbage Butterfly" and "Cabbage White" can also refer to the Large White.

Along with the Large White it is sometimes known as the Cabbage White or Cabbage Butterfly.

The Checkered White (Pontia protodice), also called Southern Cabbage Butterfly, is a common North American butterfly in the family Pieridae.

As a case in point, the small white cabbage butterfly can often be seen flying about the centers of cabbage fields until the butterfly finds the suitable cabbage for her egg laying.

Larvae of the European cabbage butterfly, a common agricultural pest, have such a repellent, according to research by scientists from Cornell, Arizona State and Trinity College in Connecticut.

The imported cabbage worm is the green larva of the cabbage butterfly or cabbage white, any of several largely white butterflies (family Pieridae, type genus Pieris, garden whites).

The biological significance of (+)-pinoresinol in plants is not fully understood, but it has been found to be effective as a feeding deterrent against ants in caterpillars of the cabbage butterfly, which obtain the compound from their diet.

Emphasis is also being placed on the effectiveness of the fleece covers as an insect barrier to keep off pests such as carrot fly, whitefly and cabbage butterflies so avoiding the frequent and extensive damage that can otherwise only be prevented by using pesticides.

Japanese scientists said that there were 844 species of Korean butterflies but he made a great effort to collect 167,847 of cabbage butterflies throughout the Korean peninsular and compared their patterns and measured the length of front wings with a ruler by himself.

Three cabbage whites were spotted outside the restaurant.

Cabbage whites are common butterflies of gardens and other flowery places, where they...

Let them count out their tortoise-shells, their red admirals and cabbage whites.

They may have been small cabbage whites, rather than huge wing-beating swallowtails, but I did have butterflies in my stomach.

There are thousands of species - great spangled fritillaries, eastern tiger swallowtails, cabbage whites, painted ladies, you name it.

There were terraced gardens with vines and creepers on the buildings themselves and the air was full of butterflies, mainly red admirals and cabbage whites.

There don't seem to be all that many bees, but today I noticed lots of hover flies and my tiny venture into growing veg had brought more cabbage whites than normal.

The 100-foot path with stepping stones meanders through a meadow in the 12.5 acre arboretum and has been attracting cabbage whites, black swallowtails, red admirals and many other butterflies.

Butterflies were rising among the flowers in the dooryard, cabbage whites and sulfur yellows, here and there the great, lazy sail of a late tiger swallowtail out of the shadow of the wood.

Interspersed with echinacea, marigolds and floating Verbena bonariensis to attract bees from nearby National Theatre rooftop hives (and distract the cabbage whites), the veg has not yet been spotted by the local pigeon community, and is to many others still a secret garden.