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Cabbage Butterfly caterpillar

Pieris brassicae

Photo by arne.roysland
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Field Notes

Description:

They grow rapidly, shedding their skins four times and becoming generally darker with fewer yellow markings. It is the caterpillar of this butterfly https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/493954906 also called Large White.

Habitat:

On the floor in a front porch.

Notes:

Norwegian name: S⁠tor kålsommerfugl

Reference Links:

Large White (Pieris brassicae) · iNaturalist

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