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Cabbage butterfly   /kˈæbədʒ bˈətərflˌaɪ/   Listen
Cabbage butterfly

noun
1.
White butterfly whose larvae (cabbageworms) feed on cabbage.



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"Cabbage butterfly" Quotes from Famous Books



... beetle Chinch bug Bean-leaf beetle Wireworm May beetle Corn billbug Imbricated-snout beetle Plant lice Cabbage butterfly Mosquito Squash beetle Clover leaf beetle Cotton boll weevil Cotton boll worm Striped garden caterpillar Cutworms Grasshoppers Corn-louse ants Rocky Mountain locust Codling moth Canker worm ...
— Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday
... called a lime plant, and a clay plant; but, like almost every other plant that is worth growing, a deep well-tilled loam will suit it better than any other soil under the sun. It has one persistent plague only. Not the Cabbage butterfly; for although that is occasionally a troublesome scourge, it is not persistent, and may be almost invisible for years together. Nor is it the aphis, although in a hot dry season that pest is a fell destroyer of the crop. The great plague is club or anbury, for which ...
— The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots, 16th Edition • Sutton and Sons


Words linked to "Cabbage butterfly" :   large white, Pieris brassicae, pierid butterfly, family Pieridae, Pieris rapae, Pieris protodice, small white, Pieridae, pierid


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