Here's a butterfly that many of you will be familiar with, the Cabbage White, Pieris brassicae, but which of these is NOT a food plant for its caterpillars?
a) Cabbage, Brassica oleracea
b) Black Mustard, Brassica nigra
c) Caper, Capparis spinosa
If you answered c) Caper, Capparis spinosa, then up until the end of last month you'd have been correct but that was before the #CreteNature blog visited Sklavoi – Village of the Slaves. It was there that we observed the caterpillars of this butterfly happily munching away on Caper leaves and added a new piece of information to our knowledge of this very common butterfly. So now the answer is ALL are food plants for its caterpillars.
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Wonder if they are still flying in Crete?
ReplyDeleteThey are Simon, the Whites are an all year round butterfly here.
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