Cathy Theys is a homeschooling (preschool and "regular" school) mother of 3, who loves creating websites! She has degrees from Purdue University in Electrical and Computer Engineering, teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago on and off in the Computer Science Department, and is very interested in everything Drupal, Educational ... etc. and has started her business to go with her passions. She would love to help you!
Cabbage White
Trying to photograph a butterfly is difficult! Is it a Cabbage White?
A day after taking the pictures of the caterpillars on the broccoli, we were outside and I spotted a white butterfly around the broccoli. A said, "Oh, that is a Cabbage White. But, why is it on our broccoli?" Well, I luckily had just watched a Good Eats episode on broccoli, and it turns out that broccoli is genetically indistinguishable from cabbage. And so, I told A.
We also got the old butterfly house from last year, and put some caterpillars in it. We know what they eat! I try to cut off the mostly eaten leaves for the pets. We'll see for sure what they turn into. :)
The first picture is the best, the rest are hear to try and convey the absolute difficulty of photographicing a flitting butterfly that won't hold still! And I deleted the same number of pictures again that were complete misses.
Picture 1. Cabbage White butterfly around broccoli.
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Picture 4. Shows damage to broccoli too.
