This is the kind of photo we WOULD be showing you if Professor Art Shapiro had netted the Pieris rapae he spotted last Thursday (Jan. 30) in Putah Creek Nature Park. This photo shows his winning catch ...

File photo: This was not the “first” cabbage white butterfly (Pieris rapae) of 2023. Distinguished Professor Art Shapiro spotted two this week. (Kathy Keatley Garvey/UC Davis) In between the rain and ...

Plants exist a large number of secondary metabolites with complex structures, which constitute the unique taste of each plant species. As an agricultural pest in the world, the caterpillars of cabbage ...

Over more than four decades of running his annual Beer for a Butterfly Contest, Professor Art Shapiro hasn’t had to buy many pitchers for anyone but himself. The beer (or its equivalent) is for ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The caterpillar form of an unassuming, small, white butterfly is among the world's most invasive pests affecting agricultural crops, and a newly published paper by a consortium of ...

A quirky New Year’s tradition with serious scientific roots fluttered back into action Thursday as the annual “Beer for a Butterfly” contest got underway across the Sacramento Valley. The contest, ...

We may have our Eastern Mediterranean neighbors to thank for the multivoltine species, the Pieris rapae cabbage white butterflies in our garden these days. Like the monarch butterfly, the cabbage ...