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Cabbage White Butterfly

Pieris rapae

Photo by ShannaB
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Field Notes

Notes:

This is an introduced species in Australia. According to Museum Victoria it was first recorded in Australia in 1937, and in the 1940s two species of braconid wasps were introduced to help control it. (Interesting, although they don't say which wasps!!) I saw this specimen near Lake Neverfill just outside Roma.

Reference Links:

Cabbage White Butterfly: Museum Victoria

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Comments (3)
Maria dB
Interesting; I hadn't thought of butterflies as being introduced invasive species.
ShannaB
Ha, you might be right!!!
Mark Ridgway
Melbourne 1929, Sydney 1941 and now they've made it to your place. They're probably just trying to go home.

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