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 ...

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 ...

Pretty little creamy white butterflies are among the first butterflies to appear in the spring. They flitter in the gardens, landing on one plant for a bit and then skip off to another plant. Lubbock ...

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 ...

Tiny holes in your cabbage leaves were likely made by cabbage white caterpillars. Here's how to get rid of them and keep them away.

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 ...

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 ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The caterpillar form of an unassuming, small, white butterfly is among the world's most invasive pests affecting agricultural crops, and a newly published paper by a consortium of ...

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 ...