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Cabbage white
Pieris rapae
-32.7483, 151.101
Field Notes
Description:
A small white butterfly with creamy coloured under-wings, white upper surfaces including a few sooty dark markings. Body is all sooty black.
Habitat:
Open grassy farmland in a small country town.
Notes:
Introduced to Ausytralia it was first recorded in Melbourne in 1929 and by 1941 had made it to Sydney - roughly 1000kms away. Two wasps were introduced to the country to keep it's numbers down with some success.
http://www.climatewatch.org.au/species/insects/cabbage-white-butterfly
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PublishedAugust 22, 2013
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