100 Species #61: Cabbage white

[urbpan]

With 100% of the votes, the answer is YES I can use my old photos in my project.
Here is a cabbage white butterfly Pieris rapae on a daffodil, back on April 12th.

Cabbage white butterflies were imported accidentally from Europe, probably on their host plants, the many crops in the mustard family. They have become among the most successful lepidopteran insects in North America, emerging early in the spring and producing multiple generations per year. Their fat green caterpillar lives well on garden plants like broccoli and kale, and can also survive on a multitude of wild mustards, many of which are common weeds of field and roadside.

Cabbage white was the 365 species #196, in July of that year.

Comments

[calypso72]

Sadie is raising a whole passel of them right now. She collects them from the broccoli and kale I try to grow in vain and has me make time-lapse videos of them consuming leaves she feeds to them in a container.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Post the videos when they're done please!

[calypso72]

Here's one from last year. I'm working on one from this year that also has a second caterpillar species I haven't been able to ID.

http://youtu.be/fA7WaegExZs

[calypso72]

Here's the second one. I need to get a better photo of the species I need to have ID'd.

http://youtu.be/lgrICc2Ajv0