Pieris rapae, small white butterflies

These white butterflies are also known as cabbage whites, this is because they lay their eggs on cabbage and other cultivated crops, which their caterpillars readily destroy

1707 1778 1707-1778 Arthropoda Brassica Brassicaceae Brassicales Cabbage Cruciferae Eudicot Eurosid Hexapod Hexapoda Insecta Ladybirds Lepidoptera Lepidopteran Linnaean Linnaeus Lobsters Malvidae Oleracea Pest Pieridae Pieris Rapae Rosid

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