spring as soon as the sun begins to warm the earth, the trees, the grass is literally filled with insects.Here and wasps and ladybugs, and beetles and bumblebees.Among them is common and cabbage - butterfly, which is common in our continent, although, according to experts, it can be seen in North Africa.
their habitats are almost all fields and meadows.Cabbage can often be found in big cities and small towns, as well as in the fields, orchards and other agricultural lands.Some of the butterflies were caught in the Altai Mountains, at an altitude of more than two thousand meters.
Description cabbage butterfly quite simple: it is a large, white, dark, eye-catching, spots on the tips of the wings.It belongs to a class of whiteflies and appearance is very similar to Pieris rapae, only a little bigger and whiter.
its name butterfly cabbage was due to the great love of cabbage.Therefore it and fight gardeners gardeners and agronomists, spraying the area with large amounts of pesticides.Its caterpillars with black and yellow color, live on cabbage and large clusters of highly harmful to crops.
cabbage butterfly begins its year from April to early October, and it is still occasionally seen.It has a fast bumpy flight.Dimensions of this, as it is called, Belyanko cabbage - a little more than three centimeters.When the cabbage butterfly lands on a plant, it folds behind wings.The reverse side of its wings is yellowish-green, looking like a coloring of the leaves, and this similarity is helping her to remain inconspicuous.In males, no females characteristic of black spots, but the color of the bottom of the wings in both sexes yellowish.
butterfly cabbage gives birth to one to three generations per year.There was a time when it is not as common, but since then, people have been widely cultivated cabbage caterpillars Belyanko came for good times.A lover of all cultural cruciferous vegetables, cabbage butterfly lays its eggs even weeds.At one time a female can lay up to six eggs, but the median - a hundred - three hundred pieces.
Eggs from cabbage painted in yellow color, have a conical shape with fourteen ribs.They can often be found on the bottom side of the green leaves of cabbage or other cultivated plants - up to forty pieces on each clutch.
Adult butterflies cabbage caterpillars are greenish-blue color, with different-sized black spots and yellow stripes, located along the back and sides.They live three to four weeks, maximum - a month, having for this time period several times shed.
favorite food cabbage caterpillars, besides all varieties of cabbage are radishes, horseradish, rape, radish, turnip.Some gardeners claim that these insects do not disdain nasturtium, mignonette, capers, and even garlic and onion.
After birth, cabbage caterpillars are held together only midway gnawing leaves, and only a little grown up, and the edges begin to eat.As a result of the cabbage leaves can only stay vein.
Enough bright color butterfly caterpillars, cabbage is a warning that they are poisonous.Try them on taste once more on the birds they do not infringe.During his last molt, and it could be the month of October, the caterpillar begins to turn into a chrysalis.The shape and color of this butterfly pupae is as diverse as her tracks: the yellow-greenish or whitish-yellow with orange and black dots.
Pupation usually carried out in the most secluded places: on the walls, under the eaves of buildings, and in a natural biotope dolls are "belted" tall grass stems and tree trunks.Sometimes they can be seen lying freely on soil, sod or among the litter of fallen leaves.
