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 have ...

"The success of the small cabbage white butterfly is the consequences of human activities. Through trade and migration humans humans helped to inadvertently spread the pest beyond its natural range, ...

The countdown to New Year’s also serves as a countdown to UC Davis’ “first-of-the-year” bumblebee and cabbage white butterfly contests, the former in its third year and the latter going back 50 years.

A butterfly for a beer? Suds for a bug? The annual “Butterfly for a Beer” contest, sponsored by Art Shapiro, distinguished professor of evolution and ecology at the University of California, Davis, ...

The winner of the 2018 Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest, sponsored by Art Shapiro, UC Davis distinguished professor of evolution and ecology, is…drumroll…Art Shapiro ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is the kind of photo we WOULD be showing you if Professor Art Shapiro had netted the Pieris rapae he spotted last Thursday (Jan. 30) in Putah Creek Nature Park. This photo shows his winning catch ...

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 ...

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 ...

Through close examination of genetic variation and similarities between existing populations, and comparisons of historical data regarding infestations of Pieris rapae in Brassicaceae crops, a ...