Cabbage whites quite often seen this year

Submitted by Looduskalender EN on Mon, 06.06.2016 - 10:10
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Female cabbage white butterflyEmasliblikas
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Female butterfly

 

Large white; Cabbage white     Suur-kapsaliblikas        Pieris brassicae

 

The photos show the differences between the sexes  of the large white. The forewings of the female have two large black dots, the male lacks them.

The undersides of the wings are pale yellow, and the undersides of the forewings of both sexes have two black patches.  The wing span is 5-6 centimetres.

Isasliblikas

Male butterfly

The large whites can be encountered almost everywhere and we can see the imagos of the first generation from mid-May to the end of June. The second generation can be seen from early July to September.

Emasliblikas muneb alates maikuu lõpust näiteks kapsalehe alumisele küljele paar … kolmkümmend muna

The female of the large white lays eggs from the beginning of May, e g 20-30 eggs on the underside of a cabbage leaf

As field vermin the caterpillars can certainly make cabbage growers unhappy.

Usutavalt tuntakse suur-kapsaliblika röövikuid päris hästi, vähemalt aiapidajad

The caterpillars of the large white are probably quite well known, at least by gardeners.

The small white is similar to the imago of the female great white, only clearly smaller.

The Butterfly of the Year - the clouded apollo (we will write about it soon) - and the black-veined white are similar in size to the great white; as a characteristic difference the clearly visible black wing veins that the cabbage whites lack should be mentioned.

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