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== Body Design == | == Body Design == | ||
[[File:Pieris brassicae 2.jpg|thumb|150px|left|This is dorsal view of Large cabbage white butterfly]] | [[File:Pieris brassicae 2.jpg|thumb|150px|left|This is dorsal view of Large cabbage white butterfly]] | ||
The Large cabbage white butterfly appearances similar to Pieris rapae (Small White). However, they have black tips(covers the end of something)on their wings. The black spot is more darker and bigger than small White. <ref> Arentsen, Hans.[http://www.gardensafari.nl/english/picpages/pieris_brassicae.htm] ''The garden | |||
The Large cabbage white butterfly appearances similar to Pieris rapae (Small White). However, they have black tips(covers the end of something)on their wings. | safari''. Web. Last-update 2013. 7. 17.</ref> They have a wingspan(the distance from the end of one wing to the end of the other wing). It is able to grow up to 58mm~65mm. Male butterfly has black tips on the off-white forewing(the anterior pair of an insect's two pairs of wings), and the female butterfly has two black dots on the forewing. Also, both sexes have off- white hindwing(the posterior pair of an insect's two pairs of wings). However, there is nothing on the hindwing like pattern.<ref name=Taina> Taina[http://webspace.webring.com/people/vt/taina/pierisbrassicae.html] ''Butterfly Gardening''. Web. Last-update 16 April 2009.</ref> The back of the hindwing looks like more green than on the top of hindwing. Therefore, when they rest,the green color help to them good at | ||
The black spot is more darker and bigger than | |||
safari''. Web. Last-update 2013. 7. 17.</ref>They have a wingspan(the distance from the end of one wing to the end of the other wing). It is able to grow up to | |||
58mm~65mm. Male butterfly has black tips on the off-white forewing(the anterior pair of an insect's two pairs of wings), and the female butterfly has two black | |||
dots on the forewing. Also, both sexes have off- white hindwing(the posterior pair of an insect's two pairs of wings). However, there is nothing on the hindwing | |||
like pattern.<ref name=Taina> Taina[http://webspace.webring.com/people/vt/taina/pierisbrassicae.html] ''Butterfly Gardening''. Web. Last-update 16 April 2009 | |||
camouflage. And the black pattern is more darker when they are breeding season.<ref name=Paras>Bhalla, Paras . | camouflage. And the black pattern is more darker when they are breeding season.<ref name=Paras>Bhalla, Paras . | ||
[http://www.treknature.com/gallery/Europe/Germany/East/Sachsen-Anhalt/Halle/photo216899.htm] ''TrekNature. Web. Last-update 2009. 9. 4.</ref> Female butterflies are usually bigger than male butterflies. <ref name=Taina/> | [http://www.treknature.com/gallery/Europe/Germany/East/Sachsen-Anhalt/Halle/photo216899.htm] ''TrekNature. Web. Last-update 2009. 9. 4.</ref> Female butterflies are usually bigger than male butterflies. <ref name=Taina/> | ||
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They have three stage on life cycle. There are egg-caterpillar(larval)-pupal-adult. At first, the female butterfly lays yellow eggs on the top of plants about 50 to 100. And the life cycle begins when they are hatch. 10 to 15 days later,the egg would become larvae..<ref name=Nature>Author Unknown. [http://www.itsnature.org/air/creepy-crawlies-air/cabbage-butterfly/] ''Nature''. Web.</ref> | They have three stage on life cycle. There are egg-caterpillar(larval)-pupal-adult. At first, the female butterfly lays yellow eggs on the top of plants about 50 to 100. And the life cycle begins when they are hatch. 10 to 15 days later,the egg would become larvae..<ref name=Nature>Author Unknown. [http://www.itsnature.org/air/creepy-crawlies-air/cabbage-butterfly/] ''Nature''. Web.</ref> | ||
They look like hairy in their body and yello or green with black spots. They can grow up to 60 mm.<ref name=European cabbageworm Pieris brassicae>Author Unknown. [http://www.ipm.msu.edu/uploads/files/Forecasting_invasion_risks/europeanCabbageworm.pdf] ''European cabbageworm Pieris brassicae. Web. Last-update February 2010.</ref>They start eating plants. Usually they eat cabbage. They are able to change their body color like green because they eat cabbage. The larvae finds a place like quite or calm and creates a cocoon. When they create cocoon, they stop eating. After 10 days, it can be pupa and they experience about metamorphosis(thing develops and changes into something completely different). After 20 days, they can be large cabbage white butterfly and they live for 1~2 monthes.<ref name=Nature/> | They look like hairy in their body and yello or green with black spots. They can grow up to 60 mm.<ref name=European cabbageworm Pieris brassicae>Author Unknown. [http://www.ipm.msu.edu/uploads/files/Forecasting_invasion_risks/europeanCabbageworm.pdf] ''European cabbageworm Pieris brassicae. Web. Last-update February 2010.</ref>They start eating plants. Usually they eat cabbage. They are able to change their body color like green because they eat cabbage. The larvae finds a place like quite or calm and creates a cocoon. When they create cocoon, they stop eating. After 10 days, it can be pupa and they experience about metamorphosis(thing develops and changes into something completely different). After 20 days, they can be large cabbage white butterfly and they live for 1~2 monthes.<ref name=Nature/> | ||
== Ecology == | == Ecology == | ||
[[File:20m.jpg|thumb|150px|left|This is habitat of Large cabbage white butterfly]] | [[File:20m.jpg|thumb|150px|left|This is habitat of Large cabbage white butterfly]] | ||
The Large cabbage white butterfly is common butterfly so they are huge numhers in the world. They spread out widely around all parts of Europe and all places can be their habitats.Gardeners and farmers don't like the large cabbage white butterfly because they give damage for their crops. Therefore, they use agricultural chemicals to reduce numbers of large cabbage white butterflies. As a result, they diminished before than 10 years ago. However, that is not serious damage for them like extinction. | The Large cabbage white butterfly is common butterfly so they are huge numhers in the world. They spread out widely around all parts of Europe and all places can be their habitats.Gardeners and farmers don't like the large cabbage white butterfly because they give damage for their crops. Therefore, they use agricultural chemicals to reduce numbers of large cabbage white butterflies. As a result, they diminished before than 10 years ago. However, that is not serious damage for them like extinction. When they are young, they eat plants like most of cabbage. However, they eat mustard growthes too. When they become adult like butterfly, they eat nectar(sweet liquid produced by flowers)in flowers.<ref name=Nature/> And they migrate from april to october.<ref name=Taina/> | ||
== Interesting facts == | |||
They have 2 species of cabbage butterflies. One is pieris brassicae(large white), the other one is pieris rapae(small white). They look like similar but they are little bit different between them. The small white have wingspan, it can be grow up 30-50 mm. It is smaller than the large white. Small white have white or off-white wings and with black tips on forewing. The female butterfly has two black spots on forewing but male butterfly has only one. Both sexes have one black spot on the top of hindwing. However, the large white have nothing on the hindwings.<ref>Bartlett, Troy. [http://bugguide.net/node/view/3259] ''BugGuide''. Web. Last-update Last updated 23 March, 2013.</ref> | |||
== Video == | == Video == | ||
