A great year to be a cabbage white butterfly: Why are there so many and how can you protect your crops?

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Dec 7, 2023, 12:50 pm252 pts
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 a pair of black spots and males a single spot on each forewing. But their velvety green caterpillars are…

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