Cabbage white caterpillar
Pieris rapae (Linnaeus)
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Size range
- Mature larvae 20–30mm long
Distribution
- Originally from Europe and North America
- In New Zealand since about 1929, now found throughout the country
Life History
- Green caterpillars are pests of cabbage and other plants of the Brassicaceae family
- Several parasites, attacking the larval or pupal stages, keep numbers in control
