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imported cabbageworm butterfly and mimics

MothBusters: Testing a Common Myth About a Small Butterfly

A common gardener’s tip suggests that the imported cabbageworm butterfly (Pieris rapae, also known as the “cabbage white”) can be deterred with an artificial mimic. But does it really work?

Entomology Today January 23, 2018 1 Comment

Carnivorous Caterpillars Fool Ants by Sounding like Queens

Last week Kiran Gadhave wrote about “The Curious Case of the Large Blue Butterfly,” and he described how the butterfly larvae fool ants into taking them into their colonies, where […]