#cabbage butterfly

[night-the-starfish]

The end of summer vacation, colored pencils on paper.

[have-you-seen-this-animal]

My destructive beauty Pieris rapae for all my failed gardeners worldwide please <3 huge agricultural pest of indescribable and abyssal loss but so innocently beautiful...

Excellent choice! No doubt lots of people have seen this species!

Have you seen the cabbage white (Pieris rapae)?

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Voting ended onFeb 9

This species has some different common names across the many regions it occupies including: small white, cabbage butterfly, small cabbage white, and white butterfly. It is also known as the imported cabbageworm.

[blooming-lenses]

shy

2024/06/29

[michaelnordeman]

Large white (aka cabbage butterfly)/kålfjäril and Small tortoiseshell/nässelfjäril. Botkyrka, Stockholm (August 4, 2013).

[forestd0ll]

lover of the lavender ཐིཋྀ⊹˚₊‧

[chlorophyll-and-chitin]

Pieris rapae on Phlomis fruticosa

23-OCT-2025

Queen Victoria Gardens, Melbourne, Vic

[look-at-a-speck-on-the-ground]

this poor lil cabbage butterfly had some crimped wings. hopefully it was just fresh out of the cocoon and looking for a good place to unfurl...

[wildlifegermany]

Der Große Kohlweißling tritt in zwei bis drei Generationen von März bis Ende Oktober auf. The large cabbage butterfly appears in two to three generations from March to the end of October.