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 ...

A quirky New Year’s tradition with serious scientific roots fluttered back into action Thursday as the annual “Beer for a ...

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 ...

File photo: This was not the “first” cabbage white butterfly (Pieris rapae) of 2023. Distinguished Professor Art Shapiro spotted two this week. (Kathy Keatley Garvey/UC Davis) In between the rain and ...

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 ...

Nathan Morehouse wasn’t expecting to discover anything extraordinary when he started studying the cabbage white butterfly. Small, plainly colored, and common across six continents, it’s a rather ...

The Cabbage White (Pieris rapae) was probably the first butterfly I ever noticed, long before I learned its name. This rather nondescript insect may be among the most familiar butterflies worldwide.

Plants exist a large number of secondary metabolites with complex structures, which constitute the unique taste of each plant species. As an agricultural pest in the world, the caterpillars of 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 millions of years ...